labelSecurity.htm
04-06-2002 Bikle
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Label Security

To be completed later.

Label Security is a new 9i feature.

The concepts behind Label Security are easy to grasp.

The application is designed such that each table has an extra column
which holds a 'Security Label' like 'Top Secret' or 'Secret'.

The performance implications are obvious; the database will need to
work harder maintain this data.  Many of the queries will have an
added level of complexity.  Of course anyone who wishes to implement
this kind of security would probably want to implement Fine Grained
Auditing which would also place an extra load on the database.

I'd need to craft a benchmark to answer the question, "How much of 
a performance cost is Label Security?

To be completed later.