This Imperva whitepaper identifies the top five database security threats: excessive and unused privileges, privilege abuse, weak web application security, insufficient audit trails, and unsecured storage media. It highlights insider threats as a major concern and explains how attacks often combine these vulnerabilities. The paper also covers the growing risks in Big Data environments, including lack of native security and duplicated sensitive data. Imperva advocates for a multi-layered defense strategy combining behavior analytics, privilege management, web application firewalls, and continuous monitoring to detect and prevent both internal and external threats to sensitive data.

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