The number of information break-ins is growing, and so is the need for security in today's computing environment. However, many people have forgotten to secure a very important piece of the overall jigsaw. Most valuable and sensitive information is not stored in a file server's flat files, but in relational databases. Whether its database is Oracle, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, or another product, that database houses the organisation's most critical information. The operating system under the database must be properly locked, but protection is only half the battle.
Databases maintain their own security subsystems separate from the operating system.
Each has auditing, permissioning, and password control functions independent of the operating system. The failure to configure database security leaves the organisation's most critical information easy prey for hackers. Watch Modern databases are designed to be network port addressable. That means that they 'listen' to the network through a specific connection point. No operating system authentication is required for this communication connection, so clients do not have to be registered users of the operating system to connect.