Executive Order 14028 mandates federal agencies to modernize IT, secure supply chains, and adopt standardized incident response, with databases falling under NIST’s EO-Critical Software definition due to their role as direct dependencies. Agencies must apply security measures such as least privilege, fine-grained access control, encryption, patching, anomaly detection, and continuous monitoring to safeguard databases. Trustwave’s DbProtect helps meet these requirements by automating vulnerability scans, privilege management, and activity monitoring while supporting Zero Trust and reducing total cost of ownership. Combined with Database Risk Assessments and MDR services, it strengthens compliance, resilience, and database security.

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