What are the key challenges and issues facing customers when dealing with database security?
Ulf T. Mattsson: Although database security is clearly the best approach to securing sensitive information while maintaining accessibility for the organization, there are always concerns about the level of impact a solution may have on performance, scalability, availability and administration. The challenge is to balance security and performance by narrowly focusing protection on the critical information that needs to be secured, and being aware how that information is used by various applications. Not all approaches to database security have comparable performance curves, but there are approaches that can minimize the impacts. A solution that can balance the security, performance and scalability is the key to any enterprise wide solution. Best practice is also to provide a centralized security policy and reporting across different systems. GS Mag: Many enterprises want to protect private data from DBA’s – is this possible? If so, how can they go about implementing such separation? Ulf
