Background

It has been said that data is the fuel if the 21^st Century. In fact, beyond personnel, data is probably the single most important asset held by an organization.

As your organization's database administrator (DBA) [YOU ARE ROLE-PLAYING HERE} and given the value of data, as an asset, senior management has asked you for recommendations to protect this valuable data asset from misuse, theft, manipulation, unauthorized access, etc.

Discussion Question

Prepare a list (greater than or equal to five (5), less than 10) of recommendations you would make to management to protect the data assets residing in corporate databases from misuse, theft, manipulation, unauthorized access, etc.

NOTE: Each recommendation MUST be supported by substantiationmeaning WHY this recommendation and HOW this recommendation will achieve the objective of securing the organizations data assets.\