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CHAPTER8

Developing Secure Applications

Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate some of the technical options and best practices to provide a secure and stable database environment for users. Recall that all of the security breach case studies in Chapter 7 had associated costs that easily reached into the millions. It would behoove you to pay particular attention to Chapter 7 and this chapter so that you can begin to harden your database systems against attackers.

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