Databases are main objects for hackers due to the often beneficial nature of sensitive information locked away inside. Whether the data is financial or holds rational property and corporate secrets, it can face cyber attacks and hackers worldwide can profit from violating a businesses’ servers and ravaging databases.
Database security concerns the use of a huge range of information security controls to safeguard databases against compromises of their confidentiality, honesty, and availability. It involves various types or categories of controls, such as procedural/administrative, technical, and physical. Database security is a professional topic within the broader dimension of information security, computer security, and risk management.
Risks to the security of database systems include, for example:
- Illegal or unintentional activity or misuse by authorized database users, database administrators, or network/systems managers, or by unauthorized users or hackers for, e.g., improper access to sensitive data, metadata or functions within databases, or improper changes to the database programs, arrangements or security configurations.
- Malware virus causing incidents such as illegal access, leakage or revelation of personal or proprietary data, removal of or damage to the data or programs, interference or disapproval of certified access to the database, the abrupt failure of database services and attacks on other systems;
Overloads, performance constraints and capacity issues resulting in the lack of certified users to use databases as destined
- Physical injury to database servers caused by computer room fires or floods, lightning, overheating, static discharge, accidental liquid spills, electronic breakdowns/equipment failures and destruction
Programming bugs and design flaws in databases and the associated programs and systems, creating various security vulnerabilities for e.g. unauthorized privilege escalation, data loss/corruption, performance degradation, etc.
- Data corruption and loss caused by the entry of false data or commands, errors in database or system administration processes, destruction or criminal damage, etc
Many types and layers of information security control are appropriate to databases, including:
- Access control
- Application security
- Integrity controls
- Database Security applying Statistical Method
As Database is like the heart of any business, it is crucial to make sure that it is protected from any cyber attack. Be aware, and go for every preventive measure regarding Database security.