International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 47 - Number 12 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Iqra Basharat, Farooque Azam, Abdul Wahab Muzaffar |
10.5120/7242-0218 |
Iqra Basharat, Farooque Azam, Abdul Wahab Muzaffar . Database Security and Encryption: A Survey Study. International Journal of Computer Applications. 47, 12 ( June 2012), 28-34. DOI=10.5120/7242-0218
Security in today's world is one of the important challenges that people are facing all over the world in every aspect of their lives. Similarly security in electronic world has a great significance. In this paper, we survey the security of database. This is an area of substantial interest in database because we know that, the use of database is becoming very important in today's enterprise and databases contains information that is major enterprise asset. This survey was conducted to identify the issues and threats in database security, requirements of database security, and how encryption is used at different levels to provide the security.