In today’s data driven world, every organization’s most important asset is their data. Accordingly and similarly to other protected components like applications, web and peripheral gateways, databases require a dedicated security solution as well.
An essential database security solution must provide fundamental features such as: reporting, asset discovery, vulnerability management, and most importantly, database auditing capabilities.
Auditing is the most comprehensive component of a database security solution, it is a key element. Auditing implementation requires exceptional development and configuration for it to function flawlessly.
As of today, there are two main methods to deploy a database security solution with an audit trail:
- Agentless – Extract the trail from the asset’s native audit trail
- Agent based – Extract the trail by parsing the asset network traffic
Each method has its pros and cons and each mainly covers different use cases. Generally, native logs are better suited for forensics and compliance use cases, whereas the latter is better suited to security and enterprise-grade deployments.
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