Database Security Vunerabilities

There are certain common and serious database vulnerabilities that most businesses that deals with data should know of. Cyber attack has been on the rise lately and especially on databases, this is due to the fact that databases usually contains valuable information. Some and probably the most important that hackers goes after are financial data and if they don't get that most of everything stored are intellectual property and corporate secrets that hackers can profit from.

The top on the list of the database vulnerabilities are deployment failures, when company are usually testing a software, they usually test to see if it is doing everything that it was designed to do, they never check to see if it is doing something that it was designed to do. Then there are the broken databases where most business don't keep their systems regularly patch leaving the database vulnerable.

There are a lot more of theses vulnerability that administrators need to keep in mind and look to best practices to make sure they are up to date some more of these vulnerabilities include data leaks when data is not encrypted with SSL or TLS, SQL Injections and Database inconsistencies.

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