Database Security: Master the Art of Protecting Your Data with Cutting-Edge Techniques

This book provides a comprehensive guide to resolving database security issues during design, implementation, and production phases. It emphasizes specific measures and controls unique to database security, beyond general information security. Topics include account credential management, data access management, and techniques like database normalization, referential integrity, transactions, locks, and check constraints. The importance of database security lies in protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access and ensuring data integrity. This book is designed for professionals, workshops, and self-learners, offering hands-on demonstrations with major Database Management Systems (MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server) across various computing platforms (Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows). Starting with an introduction to information, data, and database security, the book covers database design, management, administration, user accounts, privileges, roles, and security controls for confidentiality. It also delves into transactions and data integrity with concurrent access. Each chapter includes questions and projects to reinforce learning and comprehension.

© 2024 Packt Publishing (Ebook): 9781836644583

Release date

Ebook: August 1, 2024