Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Security: protecting data
in your NoSQL systems
This chapter covers
NoSQL database security model
Security architecture
Dimensions of security
Application versus database-layer security
trade-off analysis
Security is always excessive until it's not enough.
—Robbie Sinclair
If you're using a NoSQL database to power a single application, strong security at
the database level probably isn't necessary. But as the NoSQL database becomes
popular and is used by multiple projects, you'll cross departmental trust boundar-
ies and should consider adding database-level security.
Organizations must comply with governmental regulations that dictate systems,
and applications need detailed audit records anytime someone reads or changes
data. For example,
US
health care records, governed by the
Health Information
Privacy Accountability Act (
HIPAA
)
and
Health Information Technology for Economic and
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