Protection of your stored information in the database has become a major concern with the advent of hackers and unauthorized intruders in the world of Information Technology in recent days. The problem was always there and it was also present in the initial days of introduction of database management system. But at no time the enterprise security management system had taken such a massive dimension as it has taken today.
Main components of the database security system are controlling the access to software and data structure relating to the database, configuration management, encryption of data and scanning for the vulnerabilities inherent in your database. All these involve multiple task management and log management is what it is all about. In fact identification of the authorized viewer and taking appropriate decision regarding access control depend on viewing the authentication log.
Security Information management involves effective management of logs and understanding them perfectly. Moreover database logging is the best equipment to fight the outside intrusion. Recent multiplication of spy ware and malware has also resulted in the authorities becoming alert towards the necessity of fighting these inside attacks. However, the main challenge in the process understands the log perfectly and not just to use them.
It is also essential that database logging is performed so that auditors could make regulatory compliance validation. To day database logging is an integral part of the usb Policy and database information security system.
