# Provenance Threat Modeling

## TL;DR

This paper examines security risks in provenance systems that track data history and proposes security solutions to enhance the protection of provenance information.

## Contribution

It provides an analysis of potential security threats to provenance systems and suggests methods to mitigate these risks.

## Key findings

- Identification of key security vulnerabilities in provenance systems
- Recommendations for security enhancements to protect provenance data
- Analysis applicable to various provenance applications like ownership and debugging

## Abstract

Provenance systems are used to capture history metadata, applications include ownership attribution and determining the quality of a particular data set. Provenance systems are also used for debugging, process improvement, understanding data proof of ownership, certification of validity, etc. The provenance of data includes information about the processes and source data that leads to the current representation. In this paper we study the security risks provenance systems might be exposed to and recommend security solutions to better protect the provenance information.