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Cryptography In The Database

// November 30th, 2005 // Security & Privacy, Technology

Slashdot has a review of Kevin Kenan’s book Cryptography in the Database : The Last Line of Defense (ISBN 0321320735).

Adequately securing corporate databases can be a daunting task, and in part for that reason it is often found near the bottom of corporate priorities, somewhere under “get more coffee for the break room” and well below “deliver the product to market”.

The reviewer points out that Kenan’s book goes far in illustrating a roadmap for:

“…designing and integrating a cryptosystem into the database to protect it against the various threats that are specifically launched against corporate database systems.”

The advent of HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other privacy-related legislation has spurred companies in those industries to take steps to secure their information infrastructure against compromise.

Other industries not falling under the umbrella of those legislative acts but no less responsible for the storage and exchange of sensitive data would do well to consider the security of their own databases and whether encrypting their data in storage is something they should explore.

Read more at Slashdot.