This blog reports the results of Percona’s database security poll.
As Peter Zaitsev mentioned recently in his blog post on database support, the data breach costs can hit both your business reputation and your bottom line. Costs vary depending on the company size and market, but recent studies estimate direct costs ranging in average from $1.6M to 7.01M. Everyone agrees leaving rising security risks and costs unchecked is a recipe for disaster.
Reducing security-based outages doesn’t have a simple answer, but can be a combination of internal and external monitoring, support contracts, enhanced security systems, and a better understanding of security configuration settings.
The results from Percona’s database security poll responses are in:
How much downtime due to security breaches have you experienced in the last year?
- None (68%, 445 Votes)
- 1-10 hours (18%, 118 Votes)
- 10-24 hours (4%, 25 Votes)
- 2 to 5 days (4%, 24 Votes)
- 24-48 hours (4%, 23 Votes)
- More (3%, 20 Votes)
Total Voters: 655
Loading ...With over 600 unique participants, “None” was the clear front runner, with up to ten hours a distant second. It seems that, generally speaking for our respondents, security is not a large problem for their open source databases. When it does affect them, it causes minimal downtime.
Check out the latest Percona one-click poll on 2017 top database concerns here.
