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From the course: Advanced MySQL Database Administration
Security best practices
- [Instructor] All right, so next we're going to talk about some security best practices. Again, as the DBA, this isn't just your responsibility, this is something you'll work on with the engineering team, with the security team, but you can definitely be one of the champions of this inside an organization. And it is important that you understand these best practices and it's a great opportunity for you to take ownership of an important area for any business. So first, we're going to advocate that you practice safe data storage. We'll talk about what that means in a moment. Limit access to minimum viable access. There's no need to grant more permissions than are needed. Take authentication seriously. So you're going to want to require strong passwords, have them changed frequently, and also you may want to use multi-factor authentication, depending on the system. You're definitely going to want to dedicate some resources to security. This could be an entire team in a large…
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