Re: OT: percent of DBAs that know how to impletement database security measures

  • From: John D Parker <orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx, "Oracle-L@Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:12:00 -0700 (PDT)

How about how many companies have a clue when some auditor tells them XXX is 
not secure and you need to do XXX to secure it.

I just lost a client becaust they are getting PCI certified and they decided 
that as a third party working on their system I must be certified also or not 
touch it. A quick review of the PCI standards I found out on the web had no 
such restriction...

I've won several usability battles with the nice auditors, for some reason they 
won't take the oncall pager along with the sys, system and oracle passwords... 
So they hand the whole thing back and go away.

John
former security team member...


Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: A little piece of email today told me the 
following:

"... a full 60 percent of DBAs do not know how to implement database security  
measures, according to Forrester Research".

Does that figure seem to be:

- too high
- too low
- just about right
- Cowboy Neil

Inquring minds want to know.
Personally, I think that the phrase lacks the term "properly", as in "properly 
implement database security measures". 
"shutdown abort" or "lsnrctl stop" would be examples of "improperly implement 
database security measures".

Paul

 

                
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