From the this-does-not-inspire-confidence dept.:
Ellen Messmer reports:
Database security is rife with pitfalls, according to 430 Oracle database administrators surveyed by the Independent Oracle Users Group.
According to the results of the survey released last month, fewer than 30% encrypt personally identifiable information in all their databases, while about 75% acknowledge their organizations do not have a means to prevent privileged database users from reading or tampering with human resources, financial or other business application data in their databases…… About two-thirds of the survey respondents admitted there was no way in their organizations to detect or prove that the database administrators were not abusing their privileges.
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