After reading this chapter, the reader will understand:
Importance of database security for organizations
Security issues
Types of threats that could adversely affect the database system
Role of DBA in database security
The role of database audit for finding the illegal and unauthorized operations
Authorization, authorizer, access matrix, and authorization tree
Various access privileges that a user can have on a relation
Authentication and various methods to authenticate a user
Access control and main approaches in DBMS for access control including discretionary access control (DAC), mandatory access control (MAC), and role-based access control (RBAC)
Granting and revoking privileges to database users
Implementing ...
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