UPDATED 11:13 EDT / MARCH 29 2012

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McAfee Secures MySQL Databases with Free Audit Plug-ins

Databases are essentially the most common target for data breaches. There are also security concerns looming around lack of encryption. McAfee knows quite a lot about this as a global leader in cyber threat intelligence solutions. And to capture the complete details of activity audits from the world’s most widely used relational database management system, McAfee releases a free downloadable audit plug-in for MySQL. The service will be available for medium-sized to large enterprises and hopefully address their audit requirements.

Dan Sarel, vice president of Database Security Product Management at McAfee shares how the development can hasten processes: “McAfee developed the free database audit plug-in to give the community of MySQL users a means of building enterprise-level database security around their databases. When coupled with the McAfee Database Activity Monitoring sensor for MySQL, the data is subject to the same real-time analysis and policy enforcement as the data collected from other supported databases.”

This McAfee database security approach highlights key features that include complete and thorough visibility into the database defenselessness and what is the current stance of database security in every environment, non-intrusive and real-time safeguarding across all threat vectors and ensuring that there will be do business downtime as McAfee does some maintenance and enhancement to the system.

Data breaches are an expertise of groups like LulzSec. These three have openly menaced the web in many occasions. Just recently, it was revealed that the culprits have struck last Christmas with $700,000 in credit card fraud. Kit Dotson of SiliconANGLE.com chronicled how Anonymous successfully practiced and brought mainstream the role of hacktivism last year. And while the trickery used by this group is no different to that of many ordinary hackers, they are able to cast a spell of fear and danger to the internet. It was so alarming, FBI stepped into the picture and continues to hunt down members of LulzSec and Anonymous as court proceedings happen to those who were captured.

Android malware attacks have spiked in 2011, the same year when Intel purchased McAfee for over $7 billion all cash deal. Since then, the company has been a bit busy releasing warnings and getting involved in activities that will protect databases and devices. In January, the company teamed up with SAP to make Android safer for BYOD model. Back in March, it was reported that McAfee’s Enterprise Mobility Management, which includes significant security updates for enterprise customers to enable BYOD practices in the enterprise. A recent report also noted McAfee warns the public that there have been an increasing number of cyber criminals using digitally signed malware. Majority of the malware is signed stolen certificates, binaries self-signed or test-signed. Now, the company is launching free audits to secure MySQL databases in the cloud.

MySQL has been a popular choice of database for use in most web applications and is the core element of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python). Some of the big names that currently utilizes MySQL include Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google and Twitter. It is also being looked at by various industry proponents as being hooked easily into cloud infrastructures, therefore having more security linking into that will certainly boost trust.


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