“Implementing Database Security and Auditing” (Elsevier Press), authored by database security expert, Ron Ben Natan Ph.D., provides best practices and specific tips for effectively securing Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL and Sybase environments, including tracking security vulnerabilities, the anatomy of buffer overflow vulnerabilities and database auditing.

This chapter, “Getting Started”, will get you started by taking care of the basics—various best practices in terms of hardening your database, applying patches, and so on. Don’t skip this chapter; it has many useful snippets of experience.