Database Security

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this whitepaper is to describe best practices for securing IBM System i/i-Series/AS400 systems and detail the AS400 monitoring service provided by SecureWorks.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION: This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents a practical 5 step plan toward achieving greater standards of database security and compliance. These steps consist of discovering, securing, monitoring, protecting and managing your databases. Download the slides to learn more.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Most organizations have database discovery and maintenance plans, but surprisingly lack a database security plan. A piecemeal approach to securing the database is costly, inefficient, and creates gaps in protection and regulatory issues. View this webcast for tips from Forrester on how to design a comprehensive database security plan.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Premieres: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technical guide for database administrators and IT security experts demonstrates how you can protect your sensitive data with the native database encryption functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as cell-level encryption and Transparent Data Encryption, and manage and protect encryption keys with hardware security modules (HSMs).

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: When developing a security strategy, it is critical for businesses to consider their System i platform in order to protect themselves from data breaches. In this webcast, learn how to control network access on System i and protect your organization from data loss.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 25 Sep 2009

PODCAST: When developing a security strategy, it is critical for businesses to consider their System i platform in order to protect themselves from data breaches. In this podcast learn how to control network access on System i and protect your organization from data loss.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper presents the benefits to enterprises adopting a preemptive approach to IPC, the internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and highlights how Oracle provides database security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan talks about the Heartland data breach in relation to current data security trends in the retail industry. Also, a discussion with Ernst & Young's Sagi Leizerov on data privacy in the retail industry reveals common trouble spots for retailers, including managing vendors and tracking customer purchases.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, Adrian Lane will offer a countdown of the top five tips for ensuring a successful enterprise encryption implementation that thwarts attackers.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 18 Sep 2009

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Enterprises, particularly those that deal with personal or private data, are now squarely in the path of a perfect storm. The convergence of regulatory compliance, high-profile data breaches and increased sophistication of cyber-attackers has transformed data security from an interesting IT sideline to a bottom-line, corner-office priority.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: IT organizations are trying to support an increasing number of databases and database platforms. Meanwhile, database vendors are adding more features and updating their technology. DBAs must meet zero downtime requirements, and strict SLAs.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Rich Mogull of Securosis answers the question, What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? In this podcast he discusses how DLP benefits business and shows examples of DLP usage in the real world.

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 02 Sep 2009

VIDEO: Rich Mogull of Securosis answers the question, What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? In this videocast he discusses how DLP benefits business and shows examples of DLP usage in the real world.

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 02 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to determine how best to protect your SQL environment when running SQL Server on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how to use Encrypting File System (EFS), a feature that is provided by default in the Windows® operating system, to protect data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Published: 25 Aug 2009

EGUIDE: Data breaches run rampant and there is very little information about how to build a practical, effective data security program. We'll detail the steps to take and the technologies available to keep your organization's most valuable information assets safe. Read on to learn more about protecting the database without threatening the budget.

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Published: 19 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data Loss Prevention is designed to protect information assets with minimal interference in business processes. It provides new insights into how information is used, and enforces protective controls to prevent unwanted incidents. Read on to learn how DLP can reduce risk, improve data management practices, and even lower certain compliance costs.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This new Forrester report provides security and risk professionals the information they need to plan investments in the eight most important technologies for securing data stored in databases and on servers. Learn which technologies have the potential to deliver the most value now, and which technologies warrant a "wait and see" perspective.

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 | Published: 03 Aug 2009

CASE STUDY: One of the world's largest MMORPG publishers uses iovation to keep their games safe for their valued players, and the fraudsters out.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Because organizations are demanding 24x7 availability from their IMS, DB2®, and VSAM applications, it is imperative that those applications do not experience outages. Read this whitepaper to find out how BMC's Hybrid Copy techniques help for faster system recovery in the event of a local outage.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

EGUIDE: Read this expert E-Guide and learn what CISOs said were their biggest challenges of 2008 and what lies ahead for 2009. Topics covered include the 4 pillars of an information security strategy and how to make security decisions in a way that business units will have added value and can be integrated smoothly along with other enterprise initiatives.

Posted: 06 Apr 2009 | Published: 06 Apr 2009