Security News > 2021 > September > 46% of On-Prem Databases Globally Contain Vulnerabilities: Is Yours Safe?

One of the symptoms of this rampant and global technological epidemic are the vulnerabilities that exist in internal databases globally - those that often store an organization's most sensitive data.

Despite the increasing adoption of cloud infrastructure and database environments, it's estimated that 50% of data is stored on-premises.

The answer to this challenge is to maintain a patch management program, especially for data-centric assets, and above all, employ data security solutions to protect the data itself.

Audit for visibility, protect for prevention: Gain visibility into who's accessing the data, when, where from, and what data have they accessed.

Identify data access anomalies: Databases are heavily accessed resources; it is almost impossible to identify anomalies in a manual way.

Deploy anomaly detection tools to detect instances where an application user to the database starts to behave like a human or when your DBA access looks like data misuse or exfiltration.

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https://threatpost.com/46-on-prem-databases-globally-contain-vulnerabilities/174815/