Security News > 2020 > July > How to protect your website's database from hackers
2020-07-29 14:17
In cases where the database administrators failed to change the default logins, accessing the database would be a simple task.
Citing a real-world example of a major database leak, NordPass pointed to the instance from early 2019 in which millions of Facebook records were exposed on a public Amazon cloud server.
In another case from 2019, an unprotected database stored on a Microsoft cloud server exposed the personal information of 80 million US households.
To help organizations better protect and secure their website databases, Hammond offers several thoughts.
Identity management is another important factor as it ensures that only the right people in an enterprise have access to certain resources such as a database.