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Posts Categorized in Audit & Compliance

As the pace of software and database development increases, so audit and compliance become even more important. Companies and organizations need to ensure they follow stringent regulatory requirements, while remaining competitive. Redgate is actively researching the topic to discover where the pain points are and develop solutions to resolve them.

James Murtagh

4 March 2019

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James Murtagh

4 March 2019

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Why SQL Provision should be at the top of your procurement list

2018 will be remembered as the year the world stood up and took note of how slack some organizations were being with their data. The EU enacted the GDPR – the most far reaching data protection law so far – which seemed to lead to a snowball effect. Japan, Australia, India, and US states... Read more

7 February 2019

7 February 2019

Is Google’s $57 million GDPR fine a wakeup call for every IT professional?

Enforcement of the GDPR began in May 2018 and across the EU it seems to have been a relatively quiet period, with few fines handed down for non-compliance. Indeed, most organizations probably think all of their preparations have been worth the effort, and are well prepared for complaints from customers or investigations by regulatory... Read more

11 January 2019

11 January 2019

What is PHI and why is it important in HIPAA?

2018 saw a sharp increase in concerns about data privacy and protection. Partly, it was driven by the enforcement of the GDPR across Europe in May, but it was also because of the number and size of data breaches that continue to occur even now. Truth is, though, that long before the GDPR came... Read more

12 October 2018

12 October 2018

Data Masker vNext: Have your say on the future of data masking

Back in 2017 Redgate acquired Net2000, a leading provider of data masking solutions for SQL Server databases. Since then, we’ve invested heavily in the data masking tools to ensure our customers can balance the need to deliver software faster with the requirement to remain compliant with legislation like the GDPR. Our efforts didn’t stop... Read more

10 September 2018

10 September 2018

Highlighting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) across SQL Server instances and databases

With the recent regulatory pressures such as GDPR, being able to know what type of data we are holding onto within our business became a bigger challenge. At Redgate, we have been exploring ways to make this easier for our heavy SQL Server users and eliminate the problems around this area by making it... Read more

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Compliant database DevOps

Sophie Ross

17 August 2018

Sophie Ross

17 August 2018

8 practices for business data security

These days, everything from buying clothes to banking is done online, and this is all thanks to technology. The shift of transactional and record-keeping systems from physical to virtual has led to an unprecedented amount of problems, the most troublesome of which are around security. Implementing data security in any business is an ongoing... Read more

16 August 2018

16 August 2018

What SOX means to the DBA

The responsibilities of a database administrator can seem endless, so why should that already heavy workload be burdened with legislation compliance? Surely, legal stuff can be dealt with by lawyers? Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. With legislation like the GDPR, PCI, CCPA, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and HIPAA, the requirements for protecting and preserving... Read more

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Rebecca Edwards

26 July 2018

Rebecca Edwards

26 July 2018

Forget GDPR. Think HIPAA, SOX, PCI, SHIELD and the CCPA.

The introduction of the GDPR in Europe caused a lot of companies to start thinking more seriously about data privacy. It also prompted some American companies to reconsider doing business in Europe, and US-based websites like the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News have actually blocked access to EU visitors. Data... Read more

20 June 2018

20 June 2018

Traditional database security doesn’t protect data

It seems every week there’s a new data breach to read (or tweet) about. I recently discovered this lovely visualization of the growing amount of private data about people like you and me that is being exposed. You can filter and/or sort the data by industry sector, method of leak and data sensitivity. It... Read more

Data privacy and protection

database security

Richard Macaskill

8 June 2018

Richard Macaskill

8 June 2018

Welcome to the new world of curating data, not owning it

Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or data-containing artefacts like columns, tables and... Read more

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Redgate Blog

Posts Categorized in Audit & Compliance

Why SQL Provision should be at the top of your procurement list

Is Google’s $57 million GDPR fine a wakeup call for every IT professional?

What is PHI and why is it important in HIPAA?

Data Masker vNext: Have your say on the future of data masking

Highlighting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) across SQL Server instances and databases

8 practices for business data security

What SOX means to the DBA

Forget GDPR. Think HIPAA, SOX, PCI, SHIELD and the CCPA.

Traditional database security doesn’t protect data

Welcome to the new world of curating data, not owning it