Musings on Database Security

McAfee wins best database security solution award

Slavik — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:26:18 +0000

It’s hard to believe that another year has passed from last RSA. But, indeed, time flies when you’re busy, I guess. So, for the second year in a row, McAfee wins the SC magazine award for best database security solution. I’m so proud!

Nice way to bring some coolness to Oracle statistics

Slavik — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:12:45 +0000

Turns out that Tanel has an artist hidden deep down inside!

Wow

Slavik — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:51:40 +0000

These are some amazing statistics…

Dark Reading – Database Security

Slavik — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:16:56 +0000

I was interviewed for a nice article about database security on Dark Reading. The interesting question, I think, is not wether to invest in DB security. To me, it’s a given that you have to do it (even though some customers still don’t agree). The question is – how will the threat landscape change if [...]

Poor man’s data discovery for Oracle

Slavik — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:58:44 +0000

I’m sure we all did something similar once or twice in our DBA lives. I had to create a simple script to perform regular expression based data discovery for Oracle. This script will be used as a check in our McAfee Database Vulnerability Manager. We do support data discovery directly in the tool but the [...]

Securing Data from the Threat of SQL Injection

Slavik — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:42:26 +0000

An article Raj Samani and I wrote was published in infosecurity magazine.