Security Focus Online: Secure MySQL Database Design

“When it comes to installing software, secure design is often
the last consideration. The first goal is usually just to get it to
work. This is particularly true of databases. Databases are
commonly referred to the keys to the kingdom: meaning that once
they are compromised, all the valuable data that is stored there
could fall into the hands of the attacker. With this in mind, this
article will discuss various methods to secure databases,
specifically one of the most popular freeware databases in use
today, MySQL.

“MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.com or at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql/. MySQL is used in over 4
million installations all over the world. It is licensed under both
GNU GPL (General Public License) and commercial licenses, depending
upon what level of support that you require. It has a large user
community, which makes it somewhat easier to use under the GPL
license…”

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