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Exam CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (update August 5th, 2017)

What is a secure database technique that could explain …

For competitive reasons, the customers of a large shipping company called the “Integrated International Secure
Shipping Containers Corporation” (IISSCC) like to keep private the various cargos that they ship. IISSCC uses
a secure database system based on the Bell-LaPadula access control model to keep this information private.
Different information in this database is classified at different levels. For example, the time and date a ship
departs is labeled Unclassified, so customers can estimate when their cargos will arrive, but the contents of all
shipping containers on the ship are labeled Top Secret to keep different shippers from viewing each other’s
cargos.
An unscrupulous fruit shipper, the “Association of Private Fuit Exporters, Limited” (APFEL) wants to learn
whether or not a competitor, the “Fruit Is Good Corporation” (FIGCO), is shipping pineapples on the ship “S.S.
Cruise Pacific” (S.S. CP). APFEL can’t simply read the top secret contents in the IISSCC database because of
the access model. A smart APFEL worker, however, attempts to insert a false, unclassified record in the
database that says that FIGCO is shipping pineapples on the S.S. CP, reasoning that if there is already a
FIGCO-pineapple-SSCP record then the insertion attempt will fail. But the attempt does not fail, so APFEL can’t
be sure whether or not FIGCO is shipping pineapples on the S.S. CP.
What is the name of the access control model property that prevented APFEL from reading FIGCO’s cargo
information? What is a secure database technique that could explain why, when the insertion attempt
succeeded, APFEL was still unsure whether or not FIGCO was shipping pineapples?


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