Trends Report

Enterprise Databases Need Greater Focus To Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements

January 24th, 2007
Noel Yuhanna, VP, Principal Analyst
Noel Yuhanna VP, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Laura Koetzle , Jacqueline Stone

Summary

Over the past few years, regulatory compliance requirements and increasing security breaches have put significant pressure on enterprises to take stronger data security measures. Today, basic database management system (DBMS)-level security includes authentication, authorization, and access control (AAA), but those alone are not good enough to meet compliance requirements. Enterprises should look at advanced security measures, such as database and network encryption, granular auditing, data masking, real-time database monitoring, and separation of duties, besides having strong policies and procedures to ensure data privacy and protection. Every regulatory compliance requirement is different; therefore, enterprises should take appropriate advanced database security measures to meet requirements.

Want to read the full report?

Contact us to become a client

This report is available for individual purchase ($1495).

Forrester helps business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth. That means empowering you to put the customer at the center of everything you do: your leadership strategy, and operations. Becoming a customer-obsessed organization requires change — it requires being bold. We give business and technology leaders the confidence to put bold into action, shaping and guiding how to navigate today's unprecedented change in order to succeed.