Tag Archives: sanitization

Guidelines for Media and Data Sanitizing

destruction

Guidelines for Media and Data Sanitizing When information systems are taken offline and retired, great care must be taken to ensure media that stored the data in the system remains protected through the retirement process. If media used is going to be removed and discarded, or re-purposed, organizations must ensure data that was stored on the media is… Read More »

Database Threats and Security Measures to Protect Against Them

Data Protection

Database Threats and Security Measures to Protect Against them The following are a few well-known threats to database and Database Management Systems (DBMS), and mitigating strategies used to help protect against them. Excessive privileges. When users or applications granted database access privileges that exceed what is needed to complete tasks opens the opportunity to abuse privileges for malicious… Read More »