Database Security White Papers

WHITE PAPER: More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely over the next 12 months. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core — their databases. Commissioned by Oracle, this Forrester paper will help you formulate a database security strategy.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data through data-at-rest encryption, network encryption, and strong authentication services.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Download this paper to learn data masking best practices and enable your organization to safely use production data for development, testing, and sharing with out-source or off-shore partners, without risking a sensitive data breach.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: As hacker attacks become more and more frequent, a comprehensive security plan has become of critical importance.  Inside this white paper, learn which security strategies are right for your company. Uncover information about an approach that offers real-time alerts, audit and reporting tools and much more.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of compliance with PCI and how organizations must take a holistic approach to protecting and securing their business-critical information.

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 | Published: 27 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Software code governance is a large part of mitigating risks. Discover how this strategy can proactively establish policies or thresholds around code quality and security, test against these policies early in the project lifecycle, and control risk through better visibility into areas of risk in the project or in the supply chain.

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 | Published: 26 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data through data-at-rest encryption, network encryption, and strong authentication services.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper discusses how Intel SOA Expressway security gateway-generated tokens can replace card numbers with surrogates, removing systems from scope.

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Databases store extraordinarily valuable and confidential data. An increasing number of compliance regulations compel organizations to audit access to this sensitive data and protect it from attack and abuse.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Insider threats, both careless and malicious, abound. This fact is amplified during difficult economic times. With a plethora of digitized information, and vehicles for turning credit card data, personally identifiable information and intellectual property into cash, goods, and other services, risks have increased.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to help enterprises make decisions about where and when to use cloud solutions by outlining issues that enterprises should raise with hosting providers before selecting a vendor, and by highlighting ways in which SSL from a trusted certificate authority can help enterprises conduct business in the cloud with confidence.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 02 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: An explosion in system and application vulnerabilities has been met with new ways to attack these weaknesses. In this paper, EMA analysts take a look at factors driving the need for increased security, and how new approaches to mitigating vulnerabilities such as virtual patching or remediation, provide more ways to deliver vulnerability management.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: One of the key operational aspects of deploying a Sun Oracle Database Machine is to ensure that database backups are performed and restoration of the Oracle Database is possible if disaster strikes. This paper describes the best practices for setting up the optimal backup and recovery strategy to protect your mission-critical data.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This issue also discusses database audit tools, applications and the selection process. Learn how your organization can leverage these tools to understand database transaction activity, monitor insiders for malicious activity, and how these logs and audit trails can improve your compliance programs.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you’ll see that granular access control can only be achieved through aligning the application user model with the database security system.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Databases store extraordinarily valuable and confidential data. An increasing number of compliance regulations compel organizations to audit access to this sensitive data and protect it from attack and abuse.

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 | Published: 07 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Outbound content sent from any communications tools or stored on laptops and removable storage devices must be monitored and managed in order to minimize risk and to ensure that the content is appropriate and in compliance with an organization’s policies, statutory obligations and industry best practices. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Any organization delivering services or products via the Web should consider SecureSphere as a “must-have” piece of its IT protection infrastructure. The product set makes a strong case for itself as a leading contender in this market space. Read this paper to read more.

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

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

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: 15 Jul 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: 28 Jun 2007

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 white paper 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

WHITE PAPER: Embarcadero® Change Manager™ puts the power of change tracking, schema comparison, software-generated synchronization scripts, and flexible reporting into the hands of the development team.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 27 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies.

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 | Published: 27 Mar 2009