In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

Idera has come out with a version of its SQL Server database auditing tool that provides real-time auditing and continuous compliance for organizations dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, BASEL ...

Whether an enterprise application is custom-built or purchased off-the-shelf, you can always delve under the hood into the database layer to add your own specific functionality, like alerting and ...

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Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of the IT landscape these days, and the ability to audit database activities showing who did what to which data when is a specific requirement of many ...

Historically, database auditing and database performance have been like oil and water; they don’t mix. So auditing is often eliminated, because performance drag on critical systems is unacceptable. In ...

David Litchfield presented "Hacking and Forensicating an Oracle Database Server" at the Black Hat 2011 conference. During the presentation, Litchfield discussed a handful of ways to hack into Oracle ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...