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How to Protect Access to Your Critical Databases
Database access has always been a sensitive issue for organizations, with most companies traditionally restricting it to a handful of admins and relying on human trust for things to not go wrong. With investments in data analytics and cloud, however, large swaths of employees end up getting access to these critical assets via Jupyter, Looker, DBeaver, and other tools. Should human trust still be the only security control? In this talk with Michael Barrett, Cyber Security Strategist, we will dive into famous data loss cases, take you through the challenges with database access controls, then examine how database leaks can be prevented.
Top Takeaways:
- The history of database controls and challenges with secure access
- What’s required to overcome the challenges and have defense in depth
- How to control access and apply things like least privilege to better secure your sensitive data
