Many organizations fail to monitor users or audit database activity because they’re afraid of taking a performance hit. The worst offender we see is the DBSNMP account in Oracle. The single dumbest database security mistake organizations make is leaving their databases unencrypted. An encrypted database gets the hackers very little, while a clear text database could be a deadly embarrassment to your company, says one security expert. Have a comment on this story? Please click “Add Your Comment” below. If you’d like to contact Dark Reading’s editors directly, send us a message.”]
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