Databases introduce a number of unique security requirements for their users and administrators. On one hand, databases are designed to promote open and flexible access to data. But on the other side, it’s this same open access that makes your database vulnerable to many kinds of wicked activity. As the use of the Web grows on both Intranets and the public Internet, information security is becoming crucial to organizations. Now that it is extremely easy to distribute information, it is equally important to ensure that the information is only accessible to those who have the rights to use it. With many systems implementing dynamic creation of Web pages from a database, corporate information security is even more vital. Previously, strict database access or specialized client software was required to view the data. Now anyone with a Web browser can view data in a database that is not properly protected. Never before has information security been so vulnerable.
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