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Dual-password capability makes it possible to seamlessly perform credential changes without downtime.

DBA can configure user accounts such that too many consecutive login failures cause temporary account locking.

MySQL 8.0 has introduced an optional behavior that authorize users to change their password only if they could provide the current password.

MySQL provides password-reuse capability, which allows database administrators to determine the number of unique passwords a user must use before they can use an old password again.

MySQL provides password-expiration capability, which enables database administrators to require that users reset their password.

MySQL has the capability of generating random passwords for user accounts, as an alternative to requiring explicit administrator-specified literal passwords.

MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification hides sensitive information by replacing real values with substitutes in order to protect sensitive data while they are still look real and consistent.

In this seventh episode of the MySQL Security series, we will see how MySQL Enterprise Firewall can help you to strengthen the protection of your data, in real-time, against cyber security threats like SQL Injection attacks by monitoring, alerting, and blocking unauthorized database activity without any changes to your applications.

In this sixth episode of the MySQL Security series, we will see how data-at-rest encryption helps organizations implement stronger security controls and satisfy regulatory compliance.
You will be able to protect the privacy of your information, prevent data breaches and help meet popular regulatory requirements including GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA with MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption aka TDE.

In order to spot database misuse and/or to prove compliance to popular regulations including GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, … database administrators can be required to record and audit database activities. In this fifth episode of the MySQL Security series, we will see what MySQL Enterprise Audit provide to help organizations implement stronger security controls and satisfy regulatory compliance.