In this podcast featuring expert Adrian Lane, learn how to improve database security quickly. Get tips on key points such as conducting a data inventory, developing a security plan, creating an audit trail and prioritizing risks. 

Read the "Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)" chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to leverage DAM to prevent SQL injection attacks, monitor privileged users and track access to sensitive data. 

Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management. 

It sounds simple, but just try to figure out who accessed your confidential data yesterday. IT management standards insist on it, compliance standards require it, but can you deliver? 

This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data. 

IT organizations are trying to support an increasing number of databases and database platforms. Meanwhile, database vendors are adding more features and updating their technology. DBAs must meet zero downtime requirements, and strict SLAs. 

Poor performing SQL code is costly in terms of dollars and customer satisfaction. Discovering performance bottlenecks once they're in production is costly. 

In one neat package, the Web Platform Installer gives you the frameworks, web server, database, tools and applications you need to quickly build and run Web applications and solutions on Windows. 

In order to fully realize the benefits of their investments in enterprise computing systems, organizations must have a detailed understanding of the quality of their data. And those organizations that approach this issue strategically are those that will be successful. This paper explores strategy in the context of data quality. 

With more and more sensitive data moving from file servers to SharePoint sites, it's important to keep a close eye on what users can access documents, what users have permissions to change the SharePoint sites, and what documents are getting modified. 

If users are the lynchpin of Identity Management, then groups are the catalyst to security and productivity. Your organization wants to provision users into Active Directory and keep that data accurate. When an organization provisions a user, they want them to be automatically added to the correct security groups and distribution lists.