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How do you secure a production database?
Best practices to keep your production database secure
- Always use native SSH.
- Always use SSL.
- Use two-factor authentication.
- Prevent SQL Injection Attacks.
- Beware of pirated or cracked applications.
What prevention measures you will take to secure your database?
Use database and web application firewalls Firewalls are the first layer of defense for keeping out malicious access attempts. On top of protecting your site, you should also install a firewall to protect your database against different attack vectors.
How to protect sensitive data outside the production environment?
Grant Fritchey discusses the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production environment, and how SQL Provision can help you achieve this.
When do you need to fix data on prod?
There are times when you must fix data on Prod that doesn’t exist on other servers. This isn’t just from bugs but could be from an import of data from a file that a client sent that was incorrect or from a problem caused by someone hacking into your system. Or from a problem caused by bad data entry.
How does a team responsible for the production database ensure?
How does a team responsible for the production database, who strive to meet the developers in a DevOps process, ensure that data remains secure outside the production environment, and that sensitive or personal data cannot be viewed?
What makes a code fail in a production environment?
Code fails because it encounters unexpected data values (outside the expected range of values) or unexpected data types, or it performs terribly because the queries it executes were tested on a volume and distribution of data entirely different from what’s present in production.