HeatWave MySQL Database Audit

July 3, 2025

HeatWave MySQL Database Audit brings powerful enterprise-grade auditing capabilities to the cloud, allowing organizations to monitor and track database activity for security, compliance, and performance optimization. With features like customizable filters, real-time monitoring, minimal overhead, and seamless integration with MySQL tools, it enables administrators to log critical operations, detect threats, and maintain detailed records for regulatory requirements. The audit system is easy to set up, supports granular activity tracking, and provides actionable insights directly through the SQL interface.

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MySQL Security – Dual Password Support

May 19, 2020

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

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MySQL Security – Failed-Login Tracking and Temporary Account Locking

May 12, 2020

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

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MySQL Security – Password Verification-Required Policy

May 5, 2020

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

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MySQL Security – Password Reuse Policy

April 28, 2020

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.

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MySQL Security – Password Expiration Policy

April 21, 2020

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

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MySQL Security – Random Password Generation

April 15, 2020

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

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MySQL Security – MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification

March 19, 2019

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.

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MySQL Security – MySQL Enterprise Firewall

April 16, 2018

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.

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MySQL Security – MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption

April 10, 2018

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.

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