by Robert Buda | Jun 29, 2020 | Database Patch News
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information on available patches—including security patches—and desupported versions recently made available. Why should you...
by Robert Buda | Mar 3, 2020 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle DBA
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...
by Robert Buda | Dec 10, 2019 | Database Security, MariaDB, MySQL, Uncategorized
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...
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...
by Robert Buda | Feb 19, 2015 | Database Security, Oracle DBA
Unless you’ve been in suspended animation for the past few years, you know that major government agencies and global enterprises are hacked with numbing regularity despite their best efforts to defend themselves. Whether from nation states, cybercriminals or...
