In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the competitive arena of database engine popularity ranking as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. This pervasiveness has led Oracle Database to be trusted by Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, etc.) to house, process, and safeguard their critical data.

Data drives businesses forward, and MongoDB has become a critical database solution for many companies. But what if disaster strikes? That’s where MongoDB backup becomes essential.

At Teleport we love modern infrastructure and open-source software, but don't like static credentials and passwords. This created a challenge for us when deploying Temporal, an open-source workflow automation software on EKS: Temporal always requires a password to authenticate to the backend RDS database. To solve this problem, we turned to Teleport Machine & Workload Identity.

Whether the means of a cyber-attack are phishing, ransomware, advanced persistent threat, malware, or some combination, the target is ultimately the same: your data. So, as companies seek to implement a zero-trust approach to security, they would do well to include database protection. Interest in Zero Trust is certainly high, with nearly two-thirds (63%) of organizations worldwide having implemented a zero-trust strategy, according to a recent Gartner survey. But it is hardly all-encompassing.

Teleport's Database Access Controls (DAC) have always been designed to offer secure, auditable access to databases. But in today's rapidly evolving security landscape, simply having access controls isn't enough. Organizations need more granular control, better visibility, and seamless integration with existing security policies. This post explores how Teleport's latest features—object-level permissions and Teleport Policy integration—address these needs.

Human nature tells us that we’ll go for the low-hanging fruit before climbing a tree. Since threat actors are (after all) human, the same applies to them. Since databases are particularly vulnerable to many lower-level attacks, they are constantly at high risk. From misconfiguration to credential theft, these repositories of sensitive information can be preyed upon by even the most nascent cybercriminals.