Whitepaper

Solutions for safeguarding sensitive data housed in database management systems vary from encrypting data at the application level to defense-indepth protection of the database itself. Aberdeen’s analysis shows clear-cut advantages for database security rather than application-level security requiring encryption of data: based on the same number of applications, 30% fewer incidents of data loss or data exposure, 15% greater efficiency at addressing common audit requirements, and 34% lower annual cost of security-related management.