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Test Your Disaster Recovery Strategies before Disaster Strikes
by Willie Gray | Mar 20, 2020 | Backup and Recovery , Best Practices , Oracle DBAReading Time: 2 minutes As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be safe than sorry,” and testing your disaster recovery data is essential to keeping you and your data safe!
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It’s in the Database
by Robert Buda | Mar 3, 2020 | Best Practices , Database Security , Oracle DBAReading Time: < 1 minute Managed Health Systems of Indiana patient health information, July-September, 2019; Microsoft customer service and support records, January 22, 2020; Wyze email addresses, December 30, 2019; Georgia Tech student data, March 2019. What do all of these breaches have in common? The data that was stolen was inside a database. Yet when most companies think about data security, they still focus on securing the network, and spend very little time and energy making sure the databases—where…..
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Database Patch News — February 2020 (Issue 2)
by Willie Gray | Feb 19, 2020 | Best Practices , Database Patch News , database patching , Database Security , Oracle , SQL ServerReading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s monthly newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Cloud Customers Need to Secure Their Own Data
by Robert Buda | Jan 31, 2020 | Best Practices , Cloud , Database Security , UncategorizedReading Time: 2 minutes The key takeaway is that if you have your data in any cloud service, you must be as rigorous in securing that data as if it were in your own data center—and in some cases even more so.
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MySQL and MariaDB Encryption Options
by Robert Buda | Dec 10, 2019 | Database Security , MariaDB , MySQL , UncategorizedReading Time: 4 minutes MySQL and MariaDB Encryption Options Encryption remains one of the most widely used cornerstones of data security across organizations of all sizes and industries. Why? In many cases it’s both effective and relatively simple to implement. There are two fundamental encryption capabilities that are almost universally necessary for basic data security: The ability to encrypt sensitive data “at rest”—that is, where it resides on disk—is a critical security capability for many organizations and applications, as…..
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Communication Breakdown: Avoiding Conflict with Your Customers
by Robert Buda | Dec 4, 2019 | Best Practices , Oracle DBA , UncategorizedReading Time: 5 minutes This post describes two kinds of situations where conflict is likely to occur if we don’t handle things well, along with some thoughts about how to avoid conflict in these and other instances.
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SQL Server Data Encryption Options
by Robert Buda | Nov 25, 2019 | Database Security , SQL Server , UncategorizedReading Time: 3 minutes These days it’s only a matter of time before our firewalls or access controls are breached. Then what? In a multi-tiered security strategy, data encryption is a critical next line of defense.
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Oracle Data Encryption Options
by Robert Buda | Nov 21, 2019 | Oracle , Oracle DBA , UncategorizedReading Time: 2 minutes Oracle offers various authentication and audit features to protect data from unauthorized access. But what about data at rest in operating system files, backups or other storage media?
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Lock the Safe—Secure the Database
by Robert Buda | Nov 14, 2019 | Best Practices , Database Security , UncategorizedReading Time: 3 minutes You are going away on a much-needed vacation to Aruba. You will only be gone for a week. But you understand the importance of security, so you make sure you lock the windows and doors. You put the lights on a timer so would-be thieves think there is some activity in the house. You cancel the newspaper so they won’t be piling up outside and you ask your neighbor to watch the house in case…..
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GDPR Right to Be Forgotten and Other Access Rights
by Robert Buda | Oct 31, 2019 | Best Practices , Data Dictionary , Oracle DBA , privacyReading Time: 7 minutes To ease compliance with Article 15, 16, and 17 of GDPR, and to support compliance with other GDPR Articles, we recommend the following steps with regard to handling of personal data.
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