CHAPTER 12

DATABASE SECURITY

After reading this chapter, the reader will understand:

  • Importance of database security for organizations
  • Security issues
  • Types of threats that could adversely affect the database system
  • Role of DBA in database security
  • The role of database audit for finding the illegal and unauthorized operations
  • Authorization, authorizer, access matrix, and authorization tree
  • Various access privileges that a user can have on a relation
  • Authentication and various methods to authenticate a user
  • Access control and main approaches in DBMS for access control including discretionary access control (DAC), mandatory access control (MAC), and role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Granting and revoking privileges to database users
  • Implementing ...

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