Database Security Design and Implementation

Your business relies on your data assets!

From Client Management to Inventory to Distribution to Payroll, without data your business stops. Your data needs to be available to your people, when they need it -- always. Your data must be accessible only to those who you want to share it with. And you must be able to trust that the data you use is accurate -- every time!

The security of information assets is described in terms of three principles; Confidentiality, Integrity , Availability.

The Buda Consulting approach to database security is guided by these core principles.

We protect your database from intruders inside and outside of your organization that threaten the confidentiality and integrity of your data. We apply tools that find and remove vulnerabilities at all levels and help you create and enforce policies that ensure your data remains protected. We implement high availability technology to ensure that your database is always available when you need it.

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Confidentiality and Integrity: Protection from Malicious Users

There are many threats to your data beyond accidents; Thieves that want to access sensitive information about your customers, patients, or partners, Competitors that want information about your clients, products, or trade secrets, and employees that want to profit from their access to your data, or former employees that want to cause harm to your business.

We take a multi-pronged approach to mitigate these risks to your data and your business:

Ensuring that you have a strong security policy that is enforced and monitored.
Ensuring that your security policy is implemented in your database to enforce separation of duties and prevention of unauthorized access. This can be implemented effectively using database roles and with Oracle Data Vault, Oracle Transparent Data Encryption, and other Oracle security features including the Oracle Data Masking Pack.
Monitoring access to your sensitive data through database auditing.
Keeping your database patched appropriately so that all known security issues are addressed.
Using tools such as Application Security's DB AppDetectivePro that can identify vulnerabilities in your database software caused by configuration problems or software bugs.

Integrity: Solid database design is the foundation of integrity.

We provide expert Oracle Database Architecture and Database Design services. A proper database design and configuration will prevent many types of database integrity problems from occurring in the first place. Properly normalized data models and integrity constraints enforced in the database are the most reliable way to prevent bad data from getting into your database by accident.

Availability: High Availability and Disaster Recovery

We architect solutions that provide zero or minimum downtime using the latest Oracle and SQL Server tools including Oracle Rac and Data Guard, Mirroring, and SQL Server Clustering.

We design and implement robust Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity programs to protect your data against loss.

We work with your organization to understand the tolerance for loss of time and data during a crisis and help you balance that against your budget to find the right set of tools to use.

Database Security Assessment Services

We start by reviewing your system to understand your current security profile.

Review of your security policies
Review of compliance with your security policies
Database Audit -- Identify and report on any vulnerabilities including misconfiguration, non-applied security patches, etc.
Report necessary steps to mitigate vulnerabilities that were identified.
We also provide services to create and implement a security policy if none exists.
Our data security experts can ensure compliance with all security compliance standards incuding PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800.53, DISA STIG, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLBA.

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