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Solution: Database security

Solution: Database security

- [Instructor] All right. This is the solution video for your assignment on database security. As a reminder, Sally has come to you asking for a comprehensive security plan. Hopefully you were able to go through this on your own and write out an actual formal security plan where you talk about the potential risks, and some mitigating actions that you could take. Instead of hopping into Workbench, I'm going to jump back to some of the slides that we've talked about already. I think running through those again will help solidify the exercise here. All right. So hopefully in your answer, you talked about some of the attacks that you guys might be worried about, and that could include weak authentication, denial of service, privilege escalation attacks, taking advantage of you through SQL injection or buffer overflow, or potentially trying to phish employees, and get ransomware into the machine, and take advantage of you in that way. And hopefully you also talked about some of the…

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