Importance of Database Security in Maintaining Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Information

Database Management System

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Database Security..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The topic researched in this report is database security which is under the umbrella of
information security as it protects the data and assures that confidentiality, integrity and
availability is maintained. The database security requires the confidentiality, integrity and
availability of information. It follows CIA trait, confidentiality is the important aspect that is
achieved by encrypting the data. Integrity is another important aspect in database security as
it ensures that privileges to access the information is given to correct users (Alruwaili &
Almutairi. 2017). Availability on the other hand, states that data should remain available for
the users all the time. Various research papers about the database security is analysed and
the report is the analysis of them. The importance and the threats of database security are
listed (Alruwaili & Almutairi. 2017). The ways in which database security can be achieved
is listed below.
Database Security
In the recent years, database security is one of the important tasks as all the information is
stored over database technologies. Thus, it is important to maintain the confidentiality,
integrity and availability of data (Li, Liu, Sun, Wang & Wang, International Business
Machines Corp, 2018). Database security is the growing concern as they allow the data to be
shared and accessed electronically. It is important to make sure that integrity of data is
maintained and data is not accessed by any unauthorised user (Meg coffin, 2017). In the
paper, it is mentioned that database security ensures that only authenticated users are
allowed to perform authorised activities. It makes sure that data is protected from all the
malicious activities. Database hacking is increasing with time and the reason behind this is
malwares or the errors made in the security process of database (Li, et. al, 2018) The
increasing number of attacks has increased the chances of database breaches (Meg coffin,
2017).
In the other research paper, it was said that database security is an important component and
it can be achieved by defining access control, application access, vulnerability and auditing
mechanism. The primary way through which database security can be achieved is limiting
the access of information (Meg coffin, 2017). An access control list is used to allow only
valid user to access the information by disallowing the privileges to unauthorised user to