Monday, March 17th, 2008

Proactivity vs. Reactivity

Fern Halper, an analyst with Hurwitz & Associates wrote in her blog “Data makes the world go ’round” about database activity monitoring (as well as highlighting some of what my company Sentrigo does).
In the summary of her post she raises an important issue - that most DBAs are reactive rather than proactive when it comes [...]

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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 [...]

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