Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Most DBAs do not apply security patches
In a recent survey we conducted, it turned out the DBAs are mostly ignoring security patches. Two thirds of the DBAs have never applied a CPU and only about 10% of them are applying CPUs in a timely fashion. After releasing the survey, we had some interesting responses in online publications [...]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
DBAs are not the enemy, but they too need watching
Back after a short and much needed hiatus, I came across this piece by security analyst Eric Ogren on Computerworld’s website. He discusses how DBAs have become public enemy number one because of compliance mandates to exercise segregation of duties, and how this has been blown out of proportion to other, greater risks.
A few days [...]