Database and Application Security: A Practitioner's Guide

Chapter 13

Security Administration

Each day, programmers are busy writing code, and technical administrators—such as network, system, or DB administrator—are busy with their respective jobs. The program and project managers are working with their teams to meet deadlines and keep the team on their feet. None of these personnel can actually check background of a new or existing user, new programmer, or any other new employee who wants access to a software program, system, or smart card. In fact, these personnel are simply unfit to do the background checks and other required necessities before access is granted. There must be other employees who are experienced to deal with this kind of administrative work of filling forms, checking credit, doing ...