MySQL and MariaDB Encryption Choices for Today’s Use Cases

Long a cornerstone of data security, encryption is becoming more important than ever as organizations come to grips with major trends like teleworking, privacy mandates and Zero Trust architectures. To comprehensively protect data from the widest possible range of threats and meet the demands of these new use cases, you need two fundamental encryption capabilities: […]

Database Patch News — June 2020 (Issue 4)

Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

It’s in the Database

Managed Health Systems of Indiana patient health information, July-September, 2019; Microsoft customer service and support records, January 22, 2020; Wyze email addresses, December 30, 2019; Georgia Tech student data, March 2019. What do all of these breaches have in common? The data that was stolen was inside a database. Yet when most companies think about […]

Oracle Data Encryption Options

Oracle offers various authentication and audit features to protect data from unauthorized access. But what about data at rest in operating system files, backups or other storage media?

You Need More than a Firewall to Protect Your Oracle Databases

Unless you’ve been in suspended animation for the past few years, you know that major government agencies and global enterprises are hacked with numbing regularity despite their best efforts to defend themselves. Whether from nation states, cybercriminals or disgruntled staff, your Oracle databases are vulnerable to similar attack. In most organizations, two-thirds of sensitive and […]

Anatomy of a Database Security Assessment

Data security is not a “set it and forget it” condition—it’s highly dynamic, changing as your environment evolves, new threats appear and new vulnerabilities are introduced. And as the recent rash of high-profile breaches in retail databases illustrate, securing your databases is at least as important as securing other parts of your infrastructure. The end […]

Top Oracle Database Security Threats Come from the Inside

Your Oracle databases contain some of your company’s most valuable assets: financial data, customer data, intellectual property, corporate secrets and so on. That means they’ll be among the top targets of cybercriminals—both outside and inside the firewall. The fact that they sit behind your network doesn’t mean your Oracle databases aren’t vulnerable. And with the […]