A MECHANISM FOR DETECTING PARTIAL INFERENCES IN DATA WAREHOUSES

Data warehouses are widely used in the fields of Big Data and Business Intelligence for statistics on business activity. Their use through multidimensional queries allows to have aggregated results of the data. The confidential nature of certain data leads malicious people to use means of deduction of this information. Among these means are data inference methods. To solve these security problems, the researchers have proposed several solutions based on the architecture of the warehouses, the design phase, the cuboids of a data cube and the materialized views of multidimensional queries. In this work, we propose a mechanism for detecting inference in data warehouses. The objective of this approach is to highlight partial inferences during the execution of a multidimensional OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) SUM-type multidimensional query. The goal is to prevent a data warehouse user from inferring sensitive information for which he or she has no access rights according to the access control policy in force. Our study improves the model proposed by a previous study carried out by Triki, which proposes an approach based on average deviations. The aim is to propose an optimal threshold to better detect inferences. The results we obtain are better compared to the previous study.