Bangalore: Through your life, you may have come across some very large collections and compilations, things that you use in your day to day life to things such as stones or even bugs. You also might have met some of the organizations having large databases like Google and Facebook who are nearing to a billion users. So now the question- what is a database? Well databases are nothing but massive collection of billions and trillions of information’s that are in the forms of fields and records and on how they are being stored and served.

But when it comes to the security of these databases, it’s all expensive. Tools like database activity monitoring suites and database encryption software are highly recommended for organizations with high-ranked security directives. However some small scale organizations, which have no security mandates at all often opt for free, trusted and easy-to-use security tools.

So with that in mind, take a look at this wide range of free database security tools that can help companies scan, analyse and protect their databases from malicious attacks, as compiled by dark reading.

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