Security Of An Enterprise Level Rdbms - Threats And Challenges

摘要

All enterprises are managing their day to day affairs using IT based applications. In these applications, the most valuable asset is Data. A Relational Database Management System is utilized to retrieve and maintain the data in an efficient manner. (RDBMS)[1] was coined in Late-Seventies by E.F. Codd and since then all commercial and enterprise database are following RDBMS Model. Importance of data and its volume make RDBMS favorite targets for attackers. These attacks can result in compromise of a Database in many ways. In this paper the challenges and threats being faced by RDBMS are identified.