The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...

As compliance demands rise, enterprises are turning attention to database visibility, insider risks, and audit readiness.

A while back I wrote a review of Vormetric CoreGuard, an appliance which provides system-level encryption for files. In the review I stated that the solution increased database security, but I didn't ...

After all of these years, SQL injection vulnerabilities still stand as an old reliable for attackers seeking to break into corporate databases. "SQL injection is still out there for one simple reason: ...

The new ledger feature in SQL Server 2022 provides blockchain-based security to ensure data isn't tampered with. The ability to cryptographically guarantee the integrity of data is especially useful ...

Splunk issued security updates for a critical CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise that allows unauthenticated remote ...

[The following is excerpted from "10 Most Common Security Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Databases," a new report published this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Databases contain ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Fortinet’s FortiClient endpoint management software, meant to harden corporate and government machines, instead exposed them ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...