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posted on 2019-05-15, 04:27 authored by Vendant Chauhan, Anthony Stell, Richard SinnottAs online technology that generates personal data becomes more sophisticated, the solutions
required to defend the security, privacy and integrity of that data similarly becomes more complex.
One method of monitoring the status of such an application is the use of audit logs to track the
operation and generation of data and metadata.
Due to their comprehensive and sensitive nature, a variety of security techniques must be applied
to protect the different aspects of these audit logs. To protect security and privacy, there are many
technologies which can be used to restrict the access to these logs, but fewer focus on the
provenance of the files themselves. For instance, can it be established that the logs have not been
tampered with, or are they showing consistent information from one day’s log-file to the next?
This presentation presents a method of using Blockchain technology to establish the secure
provenance of log-files taken from an online application using both flat ASCII text files (generated
from the Apache log4j project) and the same logs stored in database format (MongoDB).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Vedant Chauhan is a Masters student at the University of Melbourne. His final project is
entitled “Secure audit of clinical registry records using Blockchain” and his research interests
include security, Blockchain and cryptography
- Anthony Stell is a clinical systems developer at the Melbourne eResearch Group focusing
on registries for rare adrenal cancer data and diabetes/endocrine data applications
- Prof. Richard Sinnott is Director, eResearch and Chair of Applied Computing Systems at
the University of Melbourne