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 | 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 | Nov 21, 2019 | Oracle, Oracle DBA
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? Protect Oracle Data At Rest With TDE To protect data at rest, Oracle offers...
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...