Data provenance collection and security in a distributed environment: a survey

摘要

Keeping track of lifecycle history and information origins are important because that is the only key issue to confirm information probative value and integrity. Provenance information management (Data Provenance) has recently been gained significant interest in computer security specifically in the domain of distributed environment. This is due partly to the increased in digital facts (complexity and size) and it widely spread usage in other fields of study, such as medicine, government, commerce, and science. Although its applications and use bring numerous benefit to scholars and practitioners, challenges still exist in its lifecycle history and information management. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of potentially influential components on provenance collection and its security, which enables us to investigate and summarize the current trends, methods and techniques addressing the aforementioned elements. This review provides more insight for researchers, system developers and engineers working on data, data mining and information security. More than 90 research publications on provenance collection and security have been examined, classified and listed for reference.