Auditing
Database auditing is the tracking and recording of operations, whether read-write operations on data, user authentications, or other administrative actions. Maintaining such a history helps to ensure that your system provides the user with security, compliance, diagnostics, and accountability.
Audit logs can reveal suspicious patterns of activity that point to compromised authentication or authorization, allowing you to remediate existing security threats and adjust your system design to prevent further threats. Hand in hand with strengthening your security posture, proper auditing ensures that user data protection and access requirements match the strictest regulatory standards, fulfilling your organization’s obligations to users and regulators.
System administrators can read audit logs to diagnose issues of performance and data integrity with extreme granularity above and beyond even the finest time-bound metrics. This same granularity ensures the accountability...
