DATABASE AUDITING
Your company’s database contains the most important information about your business and your clients. High-value confidential data resides there, which is why it is extremely important that it is secure. Maintaining strict security control over a database is a rather complicated task. The good news is that new technologies now exist that are much more efficient and allow you to capture all activity in your database.
WHAT IS A DATABASE AUDIT?
A database audit refers to the processes that allow you to measure, ensure, monitor, and record access to databases. This includes the ability to demonstrate:
- Who accesses the data?
- When was the data accessed?
- From what type of device?
- From what location?
- What SQL statements were executed?
- What were the effects caused by the access to the database?
WHAT VALUE WILL IT BRING TO YOUR COMPANY?
A database audit will help you to:
- Mitigate risks from improper database handling
- Prevent criminal actions
- Avoid data breaches
- Improve user account management
IT security solutions have evolved rapidly in recent years. First, perimeter security was established; later, solutions focused on Endpoints and network security were improved. These solutions are no longer sufficient to contain the variety of attacks occurring today, nor do they provide enough information to comply with most new regulations.
The primary objective of most attacks is to reach your company’s most sensitive data. Most of this data currently resides in databases, making complete visibility into all operations occurring on your databases a critical need.
Until now, most database auditing technologies have focused on capturing network transactions directed at the database and saving only what is needed for some regulatory reports. They are non-intrusive, work outside the database, and require significant hardware to process all the traffic, decrypt it, etc. Therefore, the amount of information they can process and ultimately provide in reports is limited.
Other technologies work directly on the database itself; however, they force clients to practically double their computing capacity in order to process both the audit and the transactions.
The good news is that new, much more efficient technologies now exist that allow you to capture ALL database activity without needing to double your hardware requirements. This makes it possible to audit any transaction made in the database and perform much more complete risk and forensic analysis.
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