Possible security related threats to the Student Information Management System and its solution

Abstract

The Student Information Management System (SIMS) is a student-level data collection system that allows the college, university or any other organization to collect and analyse more accurate and comprehensive information related to students. Data related to students are stored in repositories like database or data warehouse. As this data is very important it is essential to make arrangements about the security of database. This database contains important data of students and also confidential matters about college or university. This paper propose several possible threats to the student information system and also gives the model that can be used to improve the security of the system.

Keywords: Database Security; Database Attacks; SIMS; Security enhanced module; Safety rule base; optimization.