by Robert Buda | Aug 10, 2021 | Database Security, MariaDB, MySQL
Long a cornerstone of data security, encryption is becoming more important than ever as organizations come to grips with major trends like teleworking, privacy mandates and Zero Trust architectures. To comprehensively protect data from the widest possible range of...
by Robert Buda | Oct 23, 2020 | Best Practices, Database Security, SQL Server
Chances are your company holds sensitive transactional data like personal, financial or health records. This data is often subject to regulations and is also coveted by cybercriminals. Unfortunately, unless encrypted it is vulnerable to compromise both at rest on the...
by Robert Buda | Jun 8, 2020 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle
Have you been wanting to encrypt your Oracle database “since forever,” but feel like you just can’t afford the downtime? If a lot of data is involved, taking it all offline and encrypting it could be very time-consuming. So you’ve been putting the process off, while...
by Robert Buda | Nov 25, 2019 | Database Security, SQL Server, Uncategorized
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. Data encryption is also mandated by a number of widely applicable...
by Robert Buda | Nov 21, 2019 | Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
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? To protect data at rest, Oracle offers Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). With TDE...
