8 Steps to Holistic Database Security

sponsored by Guardium

SQL injection attacks, malfeasance by insiders and regulatory requirements are driving organizations to find new ways to secure corporate and customer data stored in databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Sybase. To make matters worse, enterprises are typically way behind in applying database security patches that can prevent costly breaches.

Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance, including:

• Discovering sensitive data in your environment.
• Hack-proofing DBMS environments with vulnerability and configuration assessment.
• The role of database activity monitoring (DAM) and change auditing.

Read this whitepaper to find out more.