{"id":4773,"date":"2020-02-03T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:14:40","slug":"two-major-breaches-began-with-exposed-databases-what-can-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/two-major-breaches-began-with-exposed-databases-what-can-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Major Breaches Began With Exposed Databases. What Can You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4578\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam.jpg\" alt=\"Two Major Breaches Began With Exposed Databases. What Can You Do?\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/swam-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, Solutions Review released two more episodes in our ongoing \u201cBreach of the Month\u201d series. In December 2019, we saw Facebook leaking millions of users\u2019 personal data. Subsequently, the January 2020 breach\u2014the first of the new decade\u2014explores a Microsoft leak of 250 million users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both of these breaches leaked millions of records with no <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-identity-and-access-management-software-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authentication protection<\/a> whatsoever. In fact, taken together, they reveal why exposed databases pose a critical challenge to business IT security teams.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"iam-inject\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-privilieged-access-management-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2020\/01\/PAM_BG_SB_800.gif\" alt=\"Download Link to Privileged Access Management Buyer's Guide\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SolutionsReview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">present<\/a> our videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vS-1VaOTNAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ssx-uUSfbX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vS-1VaOTNAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 2019<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ssx-uUSfbX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 2020<\/a> \u201cBreach of the Month\u201d videos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FACEBOOK&#039;S Exposed Database \u2014 December 2019 Data Breach of the Month | @SolutionsReview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vS-1VaOTNAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"250 Million Exposed in MICROSOFT Leak \u2014 January 2020 Data Breach of the Month | @SolutionsReview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ssx-uUSfbX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Why Exposed Databases Threaten Your Enterprise\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obviously, you can\u2019t 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can watch both &#8220;Breach of Month&#8221; videos here at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SolutionsReview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solutions Review Youtube Channel<\/a>. Also, you should check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-identity-and-access-management-software-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Identity Management Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>. We cover the top solution providers in the field and their key capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Solutions Review released two more episodes in our ongoing \u201cBreach of the Month\u201d series. In December 2019, we saw Facebook leaking millions of users\u2019 personal data. Subsequently, the January 2020 breach\u2014the first of the new decade\u2014explores a Microsoft leak of 250 million users.\u00a0 Both of these breaches leaked millions of records with no authentication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1287,142,125,1346,16,112,1347,1348,299,1204,76,425,1242,70,80,366,180],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Major Breaches Began With Exposed Databases. 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