Security Strategies for your database backups
October 20–23
When designing a new database we pay a lot of attention to the database forefront: roles and grants, password protection, SSL/TLS, defence against SQL injection etc. But when it comes to database backups, most of the time the importance is given to taking backups, their restorability and the time it takes to backup and restore. But backups if not secured can be as vulnerable as an unprotected live database. Imagine a malicious user getting his hand on an unsecured backup storage and extracting all the confidential data! Or an intern with access deleting all the backups and then the database by mistake(or they were feeling adventurous). Hence it is important to implement security strategies for Database backups too.
My talk will be about different possibilities for backup security in Postgres world. We will talk about some practical concepts and how to implement them. Attendees will leave the talk with an understanding of various strategies that they can implement in their environment to harden their database backup infrastructure and avoid some major Gotchas!
