Databases hold the most critical information within an organisation, and so require a tightly orchestrated range of controls to secure and audit their usage.

Many such controls are manual, making them very expensive and time-consuming to manage, and have difficulty keeping pace as application versions, staff members and threats constantly evolve.

Automation of database security controls, meanwhile, can dramatically increase the efficiency of security enforcement, assure compliance to mandates such as PCI & SOX, and improve working practices.  Without it, organisations struggle to maintain intelligence around what databases exist, how they are patched, who has access to them, and what individual access policies allow.  The problem is compounded within multi-vendor database environments.

Being able to accelerate security and compliance enables organisations to drive down costs but also decrease the risks inherent with managing databases. Organisations seeking to protect themselves from attack by the implementation of controls can minimise risk and effectively secure their database assets through automation.

AUTOMATED IT RATING: 4.7

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