As an intro to his performance act, an “old school” entertainer Victor Borge once famously asked the audience: “Do you care for piano music?“, which was greeted by a crowd, only to be immediately followed by a self-ironic punch line – “Too bad.”
Security topics share a similar notion – namely, once you start caring for them, you get exposed to an almost unmanageable set of constraints, issues and hard choices.…
If you’re here, that probably means you’re about to acquire some sensitive data to take care of. Or that you’ve already acquired it and are protecting it, and you want to see how MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification features can help you do it in an easier, better and more efficient manner.…
Security auditing plays important role in the process of securing a database system. Thanks to the MySQL Enterprise Audit extension, we can record all activities, such as client connections and execution of queries into a single log file, for later inspection.…
Security these days is bigger than ever. This statement needs no proof. It seems like it is getting easier and easier to get access to ‘secure data’. As system grows it becomes really hard to secure all endpoints. This is why encrypting data is now the hot topic in the database world.…
The MySQL server supports a variety of client connection methods. To summarize: you have TCP/IP (v4 and v6) on all OSes (with or without TLS/SSL encryption), Unix Domain Sockets on Unix/Linux, and Named Pipes and/or Shared Memory on Windows.
Each of these connection methods has its own set of pros and cons: speed, security, portability, and ease-of-use.…
The MySQL Enterprise Audit plug-in is part of the MySQL Enterprise Edition (available through a paid license). Basically, Enterprise Audit tracks everything that is happening on your MySQL server, and can be used to protect/detect the misuse of information, and to meet popular compliance regulations including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the PCI Data Security Standard.…
In part one of this post, I gave you a couple examples of how to backup your MySQL databases using mysqldump. In part two, I will show you how to use the MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) to create a full and partial backup.…