After having a look at the article, Database Security: At rest, but not at risk, It becomes pretty apparent that a large magnitude of companies do not do all that they can or should to prevent database security breaches. About 174 million companies were compromised in 20ll. A survey by the independent Oracle Users group revealed that 31% of the respondents anticipated major data breach. Why then, were all of these companies so unprepared? I believe these companies would benefit from attempting to find potential vulnerabilities in their database security systems, and from finding ways to prevent the vulnerabilities from happening. If these companies don't find the weaknesses to their security systems themselves, others will, and that will have far worse consequences.
It would also be beneficial to make any solutions to vulnerabilities simple. There is a greater possibility that a new vulnerability will be created, if the solution to said vulnerabilities is too complex.
One of the concerns many of these companies may have, is the amount of money it would cost to upgrade their database security systems to an acceptable level. Is it better to save $10,000 and not have an effective security system in place, or have a breach, and have all of your customers information get leaked because you didn't spend that 10 grand?
Businesses are being faced with more and more sophisticated database attacks every year. If they aren't prepared, they will end up as just another statistic on a short blog like the one I found. If businesses want to avoid that, they should adhere to better practices, such as finding and removing vulnerabilities, keeping solutions relatively simple, and spending that extra money to keep up to date with database security systems.
Blog by Hans Harvey
Blog Post 9
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Author: Mary Brandel
Title: Database Security: At Rest, but not at risk
Address: http://www.csoonline.com/article/712460/database-security-at-rest-but-not-at-risk
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