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An invaluble manual to build privacy in databases
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April 2002
193 pages ISBN: 0967584418 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
Do you have personal information in your database?
Do you keep files on your customers, your employees, or
anyone else?
Do you need to worry about European laws restricting the
information you keep?
Do you keep copies of credit card numbers, social
security numbers, or other information that might be useful
to identity thieves or insurance fraudsters?
Do you deal with medical records or personal secrets?
Most database administrators have some of these worries.
Some have all of them. That's why database security is so
important.
This new book, Translucent Databases, describes a
different attitude toward protecting the information. Most
databases provide elaborate control mechanisms for letting
the right people in to see the right records. These tools
are well-designed and thoroughly tested, but they can only
provide so much support. If someone breaks into the
operating system itself, all of the data on the hard disk is
unveiled. If a clerk, a supervisor, or a system
administrator decides to turn traitor, there's nothing
anyone can do.
Translucent databases provide better, deeper protection by
scrambling the data with encryption algorithms. The
solutions use the minimal amount of encryption to ensure
that the database is still functional. In the best
applications, the personal and sensitive information is
protected but the database still delivers the information.
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