Chapter 11. Safeguarding PL/SQL Code against SQL injection

An incidence of a security breach involves: a hacker and a vulnerable system. A hacker can be an insider or an outsider, who attacks the system to expose and access confidential information, which may lead to fatal consequences. A system could be vulnerable to attacks because of low coding standards and a half-baked understanding of technologies. The steep growth of web application users and sharp rise in social media interactions has widened the attack surface area. The systems that are a hacker's paradise are those which contain personal identifiable information, financial information, government data, and business transactions. The hazardous consequences of a security breach have pushed many organizations to look seriously after data security. As a first layer of protection, organizations must bolt the network penetration through the adoption of products like Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) and protect data access through...