Enterprise Databases Need Greater Focus To Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements

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.