Database Security Explained
Data theft. Data can be extracted from the database even if everything seems to be configured well. It just takes one logical error or an overly permissive access control.
Data corruption or loss. The person in the mirror may do as much damage inadvertently as the hooded and cloaked database vandal does by design.
Denial of Service. MySQL is fast but does not always degrade gracefully under load. We'll see how far it bends before it breaks, and how to prevent the latter.
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