Database security
Get the latest database security news, tips and information about Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft's SQL Server and more. Get information about database security gateways. Understand database encryption and learn about the simple steps that can eradicate database vulnerabilities.
List Topic Article
Highlights
Most organizations would agree that their most valuable IT assets reside within applications and databases. Most would probably also agree that these are areas that have the weakest levels of security, making them the prime target for malicious insiders. This is a difficult problem to address, but it's not impossible.
The added feature helps enterprises circumvent insider abuse and data theft as well as achieve compliance with regulations such as PCI DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley that mandate limiting user access rights to a “need to know” basis.
Deploying security precautions on endpoints of any data loss prevention system may just be the most important step. In this tip, Rich Mogull gives five things to keep in mind during this critical step.
Oracle has released its latest set of security patches and Imperva’s CTO Amichai Shulman has some interesting observations on this most recent batch of patches.
The emergence of content-aware identity access management is uniting the traditionally disparate fields of user access rights and data protection.
