Secure Data From Insider Threats

There’s an upcoming Web seminar featuring Forrester Principal Analyst Noel Yuhanna and database security experts Application Security, Inc.  on Securing Your Data from Insider Threat, on June 26, 2007 at 2 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. PST. 

Forrester Research* estimates that 70% of all database breaches are internal. Organizations must be aware of and compensate for the risk associated with employees, contractors and other privileged external employees. Whether malicious or not, data breaches have grave consequences – ranging from disruption in operations and embarrassing information breaches to loss of consumer confidence. Implemented properly, real-time activity monitoring, ongoing database auditing, and state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment combine to reduce the risk and mitigate the impact that internal and external threats pose to your network.Register  for this free 45-minute Web seminar. This presentation focuses on  gaining practical insight on how to secure  databases and reduce the risk from insider threats. Also ,  the following  topics are covered :

• Recognize the most common insider threat attack scenarios and how to prevent them
• Utilize robust database access controls and policies to deter or prevent unauthorized data access
• Implement best practices for database auditing, including:
  • Access and authentication auditing
  • User and activity monitoring to identify suspicious behavior
  • Change auditing
• Create tamper-evident monitoring systems and audit trails