Database security is the last line of defense, so it deserves greater focus on the protection of private data from both internal and external attacks than IT pros have traditionally given it. Read this paper to learn what steps you can take to improve database security in your organization. 

As today’s databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, organizations struggle to find the most appropriate strategy to keep them secure. In this Gartner report, uncover the essential controls and best practices for adequately protecting data bases and enterprise data. 

While database security has progressed over the years, it still falls behind the advancement of DBMS, increasing the risk of vulnerabilities and potential for misuse. This resource uncovers five (5) scenarios and the essential best practices to overcome this security gap and help prevent database attacks and insider threats. 

In this white paper, learn how enterprises must adopt security best practices that bring together both data leak prevention and database security in order to protect data from both internal and external threats while ensuring that the data is available to those who require it. 

Over a period of time security databases accumulate unused, obsolete user ids and entitlements. This demonstration showcases the three causes and solution sets to security data accumulation. 

This paper examines the underlying threats to sensitive data with no regular scheduled patches and offers a practical and reasoned method for protecting databases when vendor patches cannot be installed promptly after they are released. 

This white paper details the security features in each layer of Oracle’s integrated end-to-end solution stack, including infrastructure, database, middleware and application security, as well as the economic benefits of deploying a defense-in-depth strategy. 

In this video, learn how to combat against regulatory, staffing and audit pressures that security management shortcomings bring to the table. 

Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database. 

Typically, the IT operations team's main focus is on maximizing availability and performance of servers. And many times they ignore the need for security, assuming that added security software will affect performance, leaving servers completely vulnerable. This brief explores the need for IT operations teams to address security and risk management. 

This white paper examines how Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data through data-at-rest encryption, network encryption, and strong authentication services. 

This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases - and their businesses - by upgrading to SQL Server 2008.