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Compliance and Auditing

By Jonathan Gardner

In the United States, the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley, and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) make up just a sampling of the regulatory issues faced by today’s businesses. Today’s database professional is on the front lines of ensuring compliance with these regulations. Database administrators (DBAs) can use auditing to monitor and document access and changes to databases that are subject to these regulations. While auditing is only part of ensuring compliance, many times it is the only tool that a database professional has control ...

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