Special Report:
Security
April 2009
The results of the IOUG's latest data security survey proved that while Oracle users are aware of cyberthreats, they weren't doing enough to protect their data. In fact, few reported having mechanisms in place to prevent database administrators and other privileged database users from reading or tampering with sensitive data stored by financial, HR, or other business applications. Read on to see more of these studies' results, plus what experts, including Oracle's own team, are saying you need to do now to keep your data secure.
Five Ideas: Security
Malware increased by 400 percent last year, according to a study released by McAfee at the end of January, and companies may loose a combined 1 trillion dollars from cybercrimes. Where are these threats coming from? More than 40 percent of respondents said they were most concerned that laid-off employees were their biggest threat. Read on for ideas about protecting your data from threats, both inside and outside you walls.
The Threat From Within: the IOUG 2008 Data Security Survey
While there is increased focus on database security issues especially after data breaches in the press, achieving a broader strategy of security for some may have placed data security on a back burner.
Podcast: Protecting Your Data Against Cyberespionage
“The best place to start is putting the sensitive information in a secure, managed and controlled environment, such as a database,” says David Knox, author of the Oracle Database Security book. “The database is there to not only serve the data but also protect it. The database has extensive controls to regulate who gets access to what and how. When you put together all the capabilities provided by database security, you have data encryption, you have the auditing, you have access controls, you have data classification and labeling,and tie that into an enterprise security architecture that includes things like single-sign on and identity management , then you're on the right track.”
Webcast: Protecting the Business by Protecting the Database
By protecting data at the source — databases — organizations can adopt a pro-active strategy that can help lower the overall cost of securing their data, address key business issues, and make the most out of their existing technology investments. Learn how securing your database will save your organization money and facilitate business initiatives in this webcast from Forrester Research.
The Oracle Database Helps Companies Ensure Security and Compliance
As IT departments evaluate solutions for protecting sensitive information, they often find the answer is safeguarding data at the source— the actual databases in which the data resides. Database security is not only a reliable way to protect information but also what auditors look for when assessing regulatory compliance.
Cyber-Ark's Growth Mirrors Expansion of Enterprise Identity Management
Thanks to easy to guess application identities and hard coded passwords, users often can sign on to an application without anyone knowing who that person is or what they are doing.
