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Database Security

What is Database Security?

Measures for protecting database management systems from attacks, unauthorized access, and data breaches including access controls and encryption.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as database security. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on database security

Requirements naming database security across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

The Privacy Protection (Data Security) Regulations 5777-2017 classify databases into three security tiers (basic, medium, high) plus a managed-by-individual exemption.

PPL-DSR-CLASSIFY · Database Security Tier Classification

Per PPL + Database Security Regulations 2017: security. Requirements include (a) implement security per Database Security Regulations including baseline security + medium + high security database tiers + (b) implement Access Control and Authorisation Managemen...

ISRPPL-3 · Security of Processing, Database Security Regulations

Standard 7 per Section 35 + the Schedule of the Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020: Personal data shall be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing + accidental loss + destruction or...

JM-DPA2020-Standard7-Security-Sec35-Appropriate-Technical-Organisational-Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability-Resilience · Jamaica DPA 2020 Standard 7 - Security + Section 35 + Appropriate Technical and Organisational Measures + Confidentiality + Integrity + Availability + Resilience + Encryption + Pseudonymisation + Risk-Based Security

Questions people ask about database security

What is Database Security?
Measures for protecting database management systems from attacks, unauthorized access, and data breaches including access controls and encryption.
Why is Database Security important for compliance?
Database Security is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding database security helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Database Security?
Database Security appears in the requirement text of Israel Protection of Privacy Law (5741-1981), Protection of Privacy Law (1981), India Account Aggregator Framework (RBI), Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020. Across these standards we have identified 7 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Database Security?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how database security applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Database Security applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.