Question

Why is data security important now more than ever? What are some of the steps that we can take to ensure that our database is protected and secure? How can you use user views to enhance security and restrict access?

Answer 1

Data security and protection is considered important now more than ever because of the increased use of the data extraction and implementation that takes place all around the world. Every industry and every company has it's own data to use which is extracted from various elements in the external as well as internal market of the organisation. One have to keep his data secure because of the high degree of competition which prevails in the market. Every company wants to survive and thus tries to exaggerate the data , thus it is essential that the data secretion takes place in an ordered manner where it is protected to safeguard the effectivity and integrity of the business.

Some steps that can taken to ensure that the data is secured and protected would be by having secure passwords. It is very essential to have a password which is both secured and strong at the same time. Your database should be encrypted and a backup should be created. Database should be segmented and also auhorised people should have the knowledge about the secured data. Auditing and monitoring is also one effective way to check if the security is maintained as per the standards or not.

One effective way to safeguard your data is to use the user views facility.  Views provide a granular and a simple security to your database. By using user view, an organisation can limit the amount of the database that would be visible or shown to the enduser. For example, if in a management database, you want to show the employees their bonus but doesn't want to show how bonus was calculated, thus user view can be used to show only the relevant data and secure and hide the data you don't want others to see. This is an effective way of data extraction and selection and thus data security.