Security risks and prevention
The databases are at the heart of any organization since they contain customers' data and confidential business data and hence they are targeted by hackers very often. There are some common threats identified over the last few years and they include these:
- Unauthorized or unintended activity
- Malware Infections
- Physical damage to database servers
- Data corruption due to invalid data
- Performance Degradation
To prevent such risks, there are many protocols or security standards that need to be followed:
- Access Control: It includes Authentication and Authorization. All the database systems provide access control mechanisms such as authentication with username and password for authentication. At the same time, in some of the databases, it is not mandatory to set it and hence sometimes people don't enable it, leaving the database insecure. Similarly, in all databases, authorization mechanisms such as role-based security is provided to restrict the users to certain data or...
