Historically, database auditing and database performance have been like oil and water; they don’t mix. So auditing is often eliminated, because performance drag on critical systems is unacceptable. In ...

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[Excerpted from "A Guide to Practical Database Monitoring," a new, free report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Database activity monitoring, a form of application ...

There are many points in life where you may ask yourself whether it is better to build or buy. Think of a new house, a business, or an application. Regardless of the object of discussion, answering ...

Attacks from insiders are also on the rise. Forrester Research estimates that over 70% of database breaches are internal. As security breaches transition from random hackers to planned, organized ...

It's mid-afternoon. Do you know who's accessing your databases? Until recently, the answer for many organizations -- including the TJX Companies and Ameritrade -- the answer has been no. While all ...

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated ...