How to use Encryption to Protect MongoDB data
With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is subject...
Considerations on Encryption for Data at Rest for MariaDB
Data security is crucial in times of GDPR, PCI DSS or HIPPA. To comply with the regulations, one has to exercise extreme caution regarding how the data should be stored and protected. Data, typically, can...
Database Security 101: Security in Open Source Databases
Data security is one of the most significant aspects of administering a database. Depending on the organizational structure, if you are managing the production database, you must monitor for unauthorized access and usage. This also...
How to Encrypt Hybrid Cloud Database Traffic
A secure database environment is hard to achieve, but extremely important in order to avoid data breaches, ransomware and other malicious activity. Security of data is a top priority from a business standpoint. When running...
ClusterControl’s Vault Integration Adds Dynamic Data Security Protections
The security is paramount nowadays, especially for the organizations that deal with the sensitive data - financial, health, personal data. In those cases you are obliged to comply with numerous security and data protection standards...
MariaDB Server Database Encryption Basics
Encryption is one of the most important security features to keep your data as secure as possible. Depending on the data that you are handling, not always it is a must but you should at...
An Overview of Client-Side Field Level Encryption in MongoDB
Data often requires high end security on nearly every level of the data transaction so as to meet security policies, compliance, and government regulations. Organization reputation may be wrecked if there is unauthorized access to...
Is My Database Vulnerable to Attack? A Security Checklist
Data is probably the most important asset in a company, so you should make sure your database is secured to avoid any possible data theft. It’s hard to create an environment that is 100% secure,...
Exploring the Different Ways to Encrypt Your MariaDB Data
Encrypting your MariaDB database, whether it is in-transit and at-rest, is one of the most important things that an organization should consider if you value your data. Organizations that deal with financial transactions, medical records,...
How to Use Encryption to Protect Your MongoDB Data
Database security is a key factor to consider for any application that involves highly sensitive data such as financial and health reports. Data protection can be achieved through encryption at different levels starting from the...
How to Encrypt Your MySQL & MariaDB Backups
We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see...
Safeguarding your Data with ClusterControl
In the past four posts of the blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing databases and clusters, performance monitoring and health and in...