TITLE:
Security and Audit Trail Capabilities of a Facilitated Interface Used to Populate a Database System with Text and Graphical Data Using Widely Available Software
AUTHORS:
Kevin Beland, Kirk Larson, Thaine Rowley, Matt Mueller, Christopher Smith, Al Rizzo, Daniel Valandra, Marc Rendell
KEYWORDS:
InfoPath, Electronic Form, Data Storage
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.8,
July
25,
2014
ABSTRACT:
In prior work we described
techniques used to capture, store, and retrieve narrative data forms from a
database using widely available off the shelf software. This concept makes use
of the security and versioning features of database architecture together with
those of image-supported electronic document information capture. We present
herein the security and audit trail features of our construct. Unique usernames
and passwords are used at the operating system level to enforce client
validation and control access to the database system via an electronic
signature using a Boolean logic algorithm. We used the database domain to
capture original data and any changes to the data, developing an audit trail
displaying identification information. Version controlled and change tracked
electronic documents can be retrieved through the client side web interface to
enable direct search operations, thus uncoupling the client from database query
languages.