12 database security landmines, failures, and mistakes that doom your data

In most enterprise stacks today, the database is where all our secrets wait. It’s part safe house, ready room, and staging ground for the bits that may be intensely personal or extremely valuable. Defending it against all incursions is one of the most important jobs for the database administrators, programmers, and DevOps teams that rely upon it.

Alas, the job isn’t easy. The creators give us all the tools. They build in good security measures and document them. Yet dozens of potential errors, oversights, and mistakes both stupid and understandable make it an endless challenge.

To help keep track and stay on our toes, here’s a list of different failure modes that have tripped even the best of us.

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