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8 Steps to Holistic Database Security

April 21, 2010
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Guardium: In the past, IT security efforts focused on the perimeter of networks, but now enterprise IT departments are being asked to secure databases in response to growing threats. Guardium offers eight steps enterprises can take to safeguard databases and comply with regulations:

  1. Discovery
  2. Vulnerability and Configuration Assessment
  3. Hardening
  4. Change Auditing
  5. Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)
  6. Auditing
  7. Authentication, Access Control and Entitlement Management
  8. Encryption
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