Information is possibly your company's greatest asset. Information needs protection just like any other asset. As a system administrator, determine how best to protect the information contained in company databases, and who may access the information. Individual database servers need strong, yet flexible, security support.

Users and the data they access may be located anywhere in the world, connected by untrusted networks. Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data and transactions in this environment is critical.

Information is useful only if it gets to the people who need it, when they need it. With complex and dynamically changing business relationships, it is critical that information gets only to authorized users.