DATABASE SECURITY TOOLS

Focusing on SQL Injection

Abstract

Together to the evolution and increase of data and information digital storage on companies and organizations, the emergence of new attacks aimed at the database types also increased, trying to exploit it vulnerabilities, causing enormous damage to the database owners, and exposing numerous individual information’s. This document aims to identify and present tools, such as credentials and different levels of access, data encryption, query parameterization, use of stored queries, backups, secure storage, among others, which aim to ensure database security, especially to the use of SQL Injection. Therefore, it is possible to identify as the objective the explanation of the role of database security, presenting some of the most common types of attacks, and explaining the methods and tools for SQL Injections, and presenting some of the main and most used in the market for database security.