Database Security Request for Proposal: Defending both Internal and Public Facing Databases against Known Vulnerabilities
Thomas Arthur Talmadge · 2019
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) vulnerabilities are important for business leaders to know and understand. The issues are well known and understood, as are the mitigation and fix actions to harden database vulnerabilities. Database vulnerabilities remain persistent because of the proliferation of databases in many aspects of data storage and web applications, where the perceived value of the information in the database is high and the attack mechanism is easy. There are actually several database vulnerabilities, depending on the database employment, which expands the targets and, thus, the vulnerabilities. Individual databases holding organizational data have vulnerabilities, as do web application databases— with web application SQL injection being the most well-known vulnerability.