Severalnines earns ISO certification
In an ever-changing technology landscape, it is critical for companies to have systems and processes in place to tame the information security risks that affect their information assets. We have always been committed to protecting...
6 Critical Components of Successful Data Governance
Properly established data governance means that you can make faster and smarter decisions. It sounds simple, but it requires you to build a set of processes and a culture that respects certain key principles. If...
Tips and Trick using Audit Logging for MariaDB
MariaDB’s Audit Plugin provides auditing functionality for not only MariaDB but MySQL as well (as of, version 5.5.34 and 10.0.7) and Percona Server. MariaDB started including by default the Audit Plugin from versions 10.0.10 and...
Database Encryption: Why and Where You Need to Have Data Encryption
Database encryption provides enhanced security for your at-rest and in-transit data. Many organizations have started to look at data encryption seriously with recent security breach cases. In most cases, database servers are a common target...
MySQL Workbench Alternatives – ClusterControl Database User Management
MySQL user and privilege management is very critical for authentication, authorization and accounting purposes. Since MySQL 8.0, there are now two types of database user privileges: Static privileges - The common global, schema and administrative...
A SOx Compliance Checklist for PostgreSQL
The United States SOx (Sarbanes-Oxley) Act, 2002, addresses a broad spectrum of fundamental information security principles for commercial enterprises, ensuring their functions are rooted and consistently applied, based on concepts of CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and...
Database Security – Backup Encryption In-Transit & At-Rest
Securing your data is one of the most important tasks that we should prioritize. The emergence of regulations that requires security compliance such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or PHI requires that your data should...
Database Security Monitoring for MySQL and MariaDB
Data protection is one of the most significant aspects of administering a database. Depending on the organizational structure, whether you are a developer, sysadmin or DBA, if you are managing the production database, you must...
How to Achieve GDPR Compliance: Documenting Our Experience (II)
Introduction The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is just around the corner, and we’re sharing with you the things we’re doing to make sure we’re ready. As the GDPR will be taking effect on May...
How to Achieve GDPR Compliance: Documenting Our Experience
Introduction The GDPR is a new regulation for the processing of personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union (EU). Essentially it is meant to protect the rights of those in the EU...