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Insider Attacks and Human Error Is Your Database Safe

Insider Attacks and Human Error Is Your Database Safe 56 percent of the non-financial services respondents believe that human error represents the greatest challenge or risk to database security. No Title 24 percent of non-financial services firms state that abuse of privileges is the greatest threat. No Title 77 percent of financial firms are mostly […]

Jun 2, 2011
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1Insider Attacks and Human Error Is Your Database Safe

56 percent of the non-financial services respondents believe that human error represents the greatest challenge or risk to database security.

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24 percent of non-financial services firms state that abuse of privileges is the greatest threat.

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77 percent of financial firms are mostly concerned with human error.

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48 percent of database pros at financial firms are kept awake at night at the thought of insider privilege misuse.

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Among the respondents aware of a data breach that occurred recently, two-thirds indicate that it was a result of either human error or an insider attack.

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In spite of these threats, only 38 percent of organizations use role-based access control tools to manage access to databases.

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And just 36 percent have a database activity monitoring solution installed.

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In fact, fewer than half of respondents even patch their database systems within a day of update availability.

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