DATABASE SECURITY: THREATS AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES
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The subject matter of the article is the variety of different threats and vulnerabilities which can occur while developing, managing and maintaining different databases and database management systems. The goal is to analyze the described threats and provide the most appropriate solutions. The tasks to be solved are: analyze the variety of different threats and vulnerabilities and select the most common and problematic ones, propose the most appropriate preventive measures or solutions for each of items selected. Ensuring database security is very critical for the organizations. As the complexity of the databases increases, we may tent to have more complex security issues of database.
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