Database security tools safeguard databases from internal and external threats, streamline database security management and support compliance requirements — ideally without slowing down performance. Database security covers and enforces security on all aspects and components of databases (stored data, database servers, database management system and other database workflow applications)
Challenges
Enforcing adequate database security practices is vital for any organizations for a variety of reasons. These include:
Ensuring business continuity
Minimizing financial damage
Once a breach occurs, an organization must sustain significant financial costs to manage the crisis, repair or update the affected systems and hardware, pay for investigative activities, etc.
Loss of intellectual property
If a database is accessed, there’s a chance that a company’s trade secrets, proprietary procedures, and other forms of intellectual property are stolen or exposed.
Brand reputation damage
Penalties and fines
Organizations must be compliant with a large number of regulations, such as those in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more.
How can this technology help you?
In order to respond to today’s requests and to deliver optimal security and compliance functionality, a database security solution should provide some essential features:
Assets and data discovery
Detection of unauthorized access
Detect and contain insider threats
Policy deployment and enforcement
Compliance reporting
Management of user rights
Audit analysis for incident investigation and forensics
Advantages
Implementation of a Database Security solution provides ability to:
Detect and prioritize data threats
Pinpoint risky data access for all users including privileged users
Gain visibility into database activity
Protect data with real-time alerting of user activity
Uncover hidden risks with data discovery, classification and vulnerability assessments
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