Are You Adequately Protecting Your IT Infrastructure Components Inside the Firewall?
Teresa Wingfield  - August 16, 2006

Why the Security of Your Information Technology Infrastructure Components Is at Risk

Networks are commonly protected by specialized software such as firewalls, anti-virus, and network access control products to prevent unauthorized access and activity. Yet other information technology (IT) infrastructure components, including applications, databases, web servers, directories, and operating systems rely mostly on the security mechanisms that come as part of the product's built-in feature set. Security policies evolve around leveraging passwords and privileges to protect data. But is this really enough, considering that many users such as database administrators (DBAs) and system administrators have elevated privileges—meaning that there's no guarantee that a company's change policies are actually being followed?..