From the course: Performing a Technical Security Audit and Assessment

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Solution: Pick the right reviews

Solution: Pick the right reviews

From the course: Performing a Technical Security Audit and Assessment

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Solution: Pick the right reviews

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] You've been asked to find out how exposed your organization is to data loss due to human error on a set of database systems. Now you need to pick the right review techniques for this scenario. Before I tell you the reviews I would pick, here are some security controls I'd be looking for. Does your organization require and enforce least privilege? The fewer people who have access to the database servers, the less chance there is for accidental data loss. Who is authorized to access the databases and database servers? If you don't know who should access the data, you can't enforce restrictions on those who shouldn't. And how frequently are the databases being backed up? Are backups adequate in the event of data loss? So I'm going to pick the review techniques that help answer these questions. Let's step through the different reviews and see which ones make the most sense to use. Documentation…

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