Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition

C H A P T E R  14

Securing Your Database

In this chapter, we'll give some consideration to securing your database, with most of our focus going to MySQL. Although securing a MySQL database is usually under the purview of a database administrator, if you're developing applications with PHP, then in many cases you are also the defacto MySQL administrator. In that case, you need to know more than a little about security issues.