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A Basic Guide to SQL Server Security Fundamentals

Mar 5, 2025 By James Anderson In Netwrix
Organizations today collect and generate enormous volumes of sensitive data. Much of it is stored in SQL Server databases, making SQL Server security management crucial for protecting critical applications and services. Implementing strong Microsoft SQL Server security measures helps organizations defend against cyber threats and comply with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
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securitysenses

SQL Server Audit: Expert tips and best practices

Mar 5, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The database is the backbone of any organization. It stores confidential information, financial records and other sensitive data. That is why security of a database should always be a number one priority. One of the ways to make your database meet the security requirements is to conduct thedatabase audit. In this piece we will have a closer look at database audit types, provide expert tips to make this process smooth and decide whether the database migration is an optimal way out of solving database issues. Without further ado, let's begin.
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Trustwave

Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases

Jan 27, 2025 By Karl Biron In Trustwave
In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the competitive arena of database engine popularity ranking as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. This pervasiveness has led Oracle Database to be trusted by Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, etc.) to house, process, and safeguard their critical data.
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teleport

Access AWS RDS Databases in EKS Using Teleport Machine ID Without Passwords

Dec 2, 2024 By Gavin Frazar In Teleport
At Teleport we love modern infrastructure and open-source software, but don't like static credentials and passwords. This created a challenge for us when deploying Temporal, an open-source workflow automation software on EKS: Temporal always requires a password to authenticate to the backend RDS database. To solve this problem, we turned to Teleport Machine & Workload Identity.
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Trustwave

Why a Zero Trust Architecture Must Include Database Security

Nov 27, 2024 By Trustwave In Trustwave
Whether the means of a cyber-attack are phishing, ransomware, advanced persistent threat, malware, or some combination, the target is ultimately the same: your data. So, as companies seek to implement a zero-trust approach to security, they would do well to include database protection. Interest in Zero Trust is certainly high, with nearly two-thirds (63%) of organizations worldwide having implemented a zero-trust strategy, according to a recent Gartner survey. But it is hardly all-encompassing.
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teleport

How Database Access Controls Evolved to Meet Modern Security Needs

Nov 14, 2024 By Krzysztof Skrzętnicki In Teleport
Teleport's Database Access Controls (DAC) have always been designed to offer secure, auditable access to databases. But in today's rapidly evolving security landscape, simply having access controls isn't enough. Organizations need more granular control, better visibility, and seamless integration with existing security policies. This post explores how Teleport's latest features—object-level permissions and Teleport Policy integration—address these needs.
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tripwire

Major Database Security Threats and How to Prevent Them

Oct 2, 2024 By Katrina Thompson In Tripwire
Human nature tells us that we’ll go for the low-hanging fruit before climbing a tree. Since threat actors are (after all) human, the same applies to them. Since databases are particularly vulnerable to many lower-level attacks, they are constantly at high risk. From misconfiguration to credential theft, these repositories of sensitive information can be preyed upon by even the most nascent cybercriminals.
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