In this chapter, we started with an overview of security, and then the ride began with the MySQL 8 security related features. First we discussed some common security issues, then we showed how to assign privileges and how to manage access control in MySQL 8. Encryption was also covered in this chapter, to secure your sensitive data. And finally, we covered some important security plugins, which are useful to implement security in MySQL 8.
It's now time to move on to our next chapter, where we will be configuring MySQL 8 for optimization. For optimization, we will cover different areas of the database, such as optimizing queries, optimizing tables, optimizing buffering and caching, and much more. Apart from server configuration, it also covers how to configure a client for optimization.
