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Database Security 2007

Threats and Priorities


within IT Database Infrastructure
By Dr. Larry Ponemon
Ponemon Institute, New York
Report presented by
Maurine Nante (MP15123T)
Rapiah

Survey Respondent

Survey Respondent

Survey Respondent

IT Infrastructure
Operating system
Database management
system
Communications
protocols
Compilers
Other development tools

Data Rank
Intellectual property
Business confidential
information
Customer and
consumer data
Employee data

Security Spending

Database Deployment

Database Importance

Types of Database

Database Security Confidence

Security Priorities

Overall IT Priorities

Conclusions
Security practitioners understand the
importance of databases.
Smaller sized organisations put smaller budget
on databases security.
Low regulatory compliance is unsufficient to
motivate IT behaviour.
The observations are preliminary.

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