Fortifying your database: how to keep your databases secure
Most security investment points at the perimeter, and most sensitive data sits in a database behind it. Angela Henry, Principal Consultant at Fortified Data, works through what to secure at the database itself, in what order, and what is usually already exposed by the time anybody looks.
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What the session covers
- Identifying vulnerabilities. The weaknesses that recur across database estates, how to find them in yours, and which ones to deal with first.
- Security policy that survives contact with an estate. Policies and procedures that protect the data and can actually be operated by the team that has to operate them.
- The platform features already available to you. Modern tooling and the protection built into current database platforms, much of which is licensed and unused.
- Incident response planning. Preparing for a breach so that the response is a procedure rather than an improvisation, and limiting what it costs.
Who it is for
IT professionals
Responsible for a security posture that has to hold at the data layer and not only at the edge.
Database administrators
Who own the platform features this session covers and are usually the ones asked whether they are switched on.
Business leaders
Accountable for what a breach would mean, and for whether the response plan exists before it is needed.
After the session
From the general risks to yours
The session covers the vulnerabilities that recur across estates. Which of them are present in a given environment, and which are already being exploited, is a question the session cannot answer from a slide.
A security assessment answers it against the environment you actually run, and produces the order to fix things in rather than a list.
- Security assessment. The engagement that finds these vulnerabilities in your estate.
- Database health check. The broader assessment, where security is one of the areas covered.
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Find out what is exposed now
The uncomfortable part of this session is how much of it describes a default configuration nobody chose. An assessment establishes which of those defaults you are running, and what each one is exposing.
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