The heart of any company’s information lies in the database. Any breach of security and the data stands exposed to the entire world!!
The threats are not only from outside but also from within the organization. It could be from humans, viruses and Trojans. The attackers could also gain access from any non encrypted traffic between the application and database. Meeting regulatory compliance is a real challenge.
The risks are indeed very high!!!
- Perimeter level security
- Strong Access Controls
- Encryption
- Database Auditing services and Vulnerability assessment
- Capturing all database related activities
- Securing ODBC/JDBC connections
- Implementation of Advanced Security and technologies like Database Vault
- Alerts for any suspicious activity
Database security refers to the collective measures used to protect and secure adatabase or database management software from illegitimate use and malicious threats and attacks. It is a broad term that includes a multitude of processes, tools and methodologies that ensure security within a database environment.
Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored functions, the database systems, the database servers and the associated network links) against compromises of their confidentiality, integrity and availability. It involves various types or categories of controls, such as technical, procedural/administrative and physical. Database security is a specialist topic within the broader realms of computer security, information security and risk management.
