Two Major Breaches Began With Exposed Databases. What Can You Do?
Recently, Solutions Review released two more episodes in our ongoing “Breach of the Month” series. In December 2019, we saw Facebook leaking millions of users’ personal data. Subsequently, the January 2020 breach—the first of the new decade—explores a Microsoft leak of 250 million users.
Both of these breaches leaked millions of records with no authentication protection whatsoever. In fact, taken together, they reveal why exposed databases pose a critical challenge to business IT security teams.
Why Exposed Databases Threaten Your Enterprise
Imagine all of the information your company accumulates, aggregates, and stores in databases. This may include customer identity information, payment information, financial data, proprietary assets, and research.
Imagine now that anyone, insider threat and threat actor alike, can access that information via exposed databases. Of course, the idea of that should terrify you. Exposed databases containing that information can alienate your customers and partners and significantly damage your long-term bottom line.
Yet so many enterprises continue to fall prey to this challenge; in fact, as you can see in the videos, even major technology giants struggle with this. Often, databases just end up lost in the shuffle of workflows or temporary projects; someone creates a database without a second thought and then receives no attention or identity management cybersecurity.
Obviously, you can’t allow this to happen to your organization. Therefore, you need an identity management solution that prevents causal data manipulation and automatically enforces authentication protocols on databases. Additionally, your Identity Management solution should prevent data-uploading to the cloud without the right permission to ensure the data remains visible.
You can watch both “Breach of Month” videos here at the Solutions Review Youtube Channel. Also, you should check out the Identity Management Buyer’s Guide. We cover the top solution providers in the field and their key capabilities.
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Ben Canner
Ben Canner is an enterprise technology writer and analyst covering Identity Management, SIEM, Endpoint Protection, and Cybersecurity writ large. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Clark University in Worcester, MA. He previously worked as a corporate blogger and ghost writer. You can reach him via Twitter and LinkedIn.
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