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Securing Your Databases
By Eric Gross | October 24, 2007
Is it any wonder that database security is practically last on the “To Do” list of DBAs? Their chaotic day is filled with “installing, upgrading, capacity planning, tuning, fixing application performances, and recovering documents” as well as “firefighting their way through their day-to-day activities.”
Free time? What’s that?
In a recent article in eWEEK entitled, “The Job of Securing the Database,” it is noted that DBAs spend approximately 7% of their time on security issues. The Forrester Research analyst associated with the study said that, “The security group that assigns the policies don’t have the database skills, so they assign the stuff to the DBAs, who don’t have the time.”
Exactly; is this an advertisement for Clarity or what?
Read the entire article here.
Topics: Efficiency, Patches, People, Security