Posted by Jim Kennedy on 12/09/05 06:54

"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@acm.org> wrote in message
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> Martin wrote:
>
> > It made me wonder how
> > high-security DB's are handled. It seems to me that data is, for the
most
> > part, fully exposed.
> >
> > -Martin
>
> High security means at all levels, including physical access. Your bank
> doesn't give you their confidential data on a disk does it? That's why
> they don't need to encrypt it in the database - because they can secure
> and authenticate the access to the data.
>
> --
> David Portas
> SQL Server MVP
> --
>

Ahh, but I bet they don't encrypt the backups. They should. Oracle 10G2
allows this.
Jim

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