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Johan Lamberts

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Your databases are being watched. Just not by you

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By Johan Lamberts
| ITWeb Verified
Database security is a governance obligation. The perimeter protects the route, not the destination – security investment concentrates on the edge, while the database, where the data actually lives, carries no active monitoring layer in most environments. 241 days is the arithmetic of absence – IBM’s average breach timeline is not a measure of attacker sophistication, but of how long an unmonitored database goes unwatched.
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The breach is in the database

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By Johan Lamberts
| ITWeb Verified
Active visibility at the database layer is a specific practice, not a general aspiration. The extraction point, not the entry point – security investment concentrates on the perimeter and the endpoint, but the data leaves from the database – the one layer most often left unmonitored. Same layer, every sector – the breach pattern spans real estate, telecoms, government, healthcare and financial services – but the point of extraction converges on the same ungoverned destination: the database.
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The breach is in the database

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By Johan Lamberts
| ITWeb Verified
The frequency of breaches is rising. (Image source: 123RF) At the pace recorded in the most recent reporting period, South African organisations are experiencing a data breach every three hours. The Information Regulator recorded 2 374 formally reported incidents in the 2024/25 financial year – and the figure rose a further 40% in the months that followed. In the financial sector alone, the average cost of a single breach has reached R70.2 million.
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