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Database security

Database security

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Database security

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- [Instructor] Databases contain a wide variety of information that is sensitive, critical to business processes, or both. Security professionals should work closely with database administrators to protect the information stored in databases against confidentiality, integrity, and availability threats. Database normalization is a set of design principles that database designers should follow when building and modifying databases. Databases that follow these principles are said to be in normal forms. These normal forms are numbered in increasing order of the level of principle followed. There's an active and healthy debate in the database community about how closely database designers should follow the normal forms. Some of the advantages of implementing these principles as much as practical include that normalized designs prevent data inconsistency, they prevent update anomalies, they reduce the need for restructuring existing databases in the future, and they make the database schema…

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