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The Time Has Come for Database Security

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Although databases have been around for a long time, it is only in recent years that particular attention is paid to database security, and even so, this has been progressing slowly. Driven mostly by the need for regulatory compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other legal and regulatory requirements, database security solutions seem to have been implemented with no particular sense of urgency, as part of larger compliance agendas and not always with wider, more comprehensive security concerns in mind.

This is starting to change due to a constellation of factors that are bringing database security into the top five list of initiatives in enterprise IT security. Recent highly publicized breaches combined with a growing recognition of the underinvestment in this field and the potential risk this represents are forcing organizations to pay closer attention to the state of their databases’ security.

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