Security Policy of Databases

Jose Simpton

Many people worry about the security of the database while using it. So, how to set the security policy of the database?

1. Install firewall to improve the audit mechanism of the system.

2. Set passwords for all controller login users.

3. Check and kill whether there are Trojan horses in the system.

4. Clear the illegal users of the existing SQL SERVER.

Then we will further introduce the more specific steps.

1. Detection Results

You can use cloud application detection tools to find out the current usage of the software in use. The detection will include the user and use frequency. At the same time, it determines whether the use involves business data. Vendors need to provide shadow IT assessment opinions. In this way, they adopt the Cloud Access Security Agent (CASB) solution. This is to understand the severity of current IT problems within the enterprise.

2. Risk Assessment

This is to conduct sanctions, monitoring and suppression to specific applications. The aim is to build a good cloud application environment. Via the rating system, you can find out the risk features of cloud applications. There is one thing you have to make sure. There are demands on this rating and presentation system. It should be able to analyze the shadow IT. At the same time, it can upload, anonymize, compress and cache log data. Then, it will deliver automated risk assessment statements with no problems.

3. User Guidance

The company should ensure one thing. That is, all employees understand common network illegal tactics. The aim is to reduce the impact of unknown threats. Unknown threats exist all the time. But excellent security awareness training can help mitigate their results. The company should issue reminders at fixed period. At the same time, it needs to organize training per quarter. Both these are to reduce the risk of malware at low cost.

4. Policy Execution

Security policy execution must have high granularity and real-time performance. What are the results when these requirements meet the field of cloud applications? They may be difficult to complete. You should set the policy control scheme according certain things. They are the user practices, tools used and transaction rules. Your design of relevant content should have its basis. This basis includes the background of user groups, devices, locations, browsers and agents as its basis. Please consider using a security gateway (internal, public or hybrid). At the same time, you better combined it with CASB scheme with data loss prevention function.

5. Privacy and Governance

Data in the cloud environment requires special security policies. They should take data as their center. Encryption mechanism is necessary in all kinds of environments. But in most cases, the encryption token mechanism plays a much more prominent role. I mean, when they are in the field of cloud security. You have to make sure that the encryption mechanism will not affect the functions of the applications. For example, its searching, sorting, reporting and sending mail. What will happen when the encryption mechanism adversely affects the normal use of the above functions? The answer is that the users will find ways to avoid encryption.

6. Encrypted Traffic Management

There are industries that have to encrypt more than 50% of traffic. For instance, financial services and health care. For them, the policy-based traffic decryption may need to match a dedicated SSL visualization subsystem and/or a dedicated network architecture.

7. Event Response

Cloud deployment should take a low level as its foundation. This is to establish an intuitive human-computer interface. In this way, you can realize event response. For example, multi-format lookup and visualization. At the same time, filtering and integration of third-party SIEM systems are some of them .

The above is about the relevant methods and specific steps of database security settings. For every user, the security of the database is of vital importance. Risks will exist all the time. But the key is to know how to protect it.