The World of Security in MySQL

Now that you’re somewhat aware of the security world within MariaDB, it’s time to dive deeper into the things you can do to secure your relational database management system, isn’t it? In this chapter, I’ll provide you with a deeper dive into the general security guidelines we’ve talked about, then talk more about access control and user security, walk you through MariaDB components and plugins that help you keep your data safe, talk about using firewalls together with MariaDB or MySQL, and walk you through a couple of enterprise-level security controls. After that, we’ll dip into security guidelines for specific use cases, talk about password management, account locking, security plugins, and backup security and attacks targeting your database.