Data security as a top priority in the digital world: preserve data value by being proactive and thinking security first. (arXiv:2206.06814v2 [cs.DB] UPDATED)

Today, large amounts of data are being continuously produced, collected, and
exchanged between systems. As the number of devices, systems and data produced
grows up, the risk of security breaches increases. This is all the more
relevant in times of COVID-19, which has affected not only the health and lives
of human beings’ but also the lifestyle of society, i.e., the digital
environment has replaced the physical. This has led to an increase in cyber
security threats of various nature. While security breaches and different
security protection mechanisms have been widely covered in the literature, the
concept of a primitive artifact such as data management system seems to have
been more neglected by researchers and practitioners. But are data management
systems always protected by default? Previous research and regular updates on
data leakages suggest that the number and nature of these vulnerabilities are
high. It also refers to little or no DBMS protection, especially in case of
NoSQL, which are thus vulnerable to attacks. The aim of this paper is to
examine whether traditional vulnerability registries provide a sufficiently
comprehensive view of DBMS security, or they should be intensively and
dynamically inspected by DBMS owners by referring to Internet of Things Search
Engines moving towards a sustainable and resilient digitized environment. The
paper brings attention to this problem and makes the reader think about data
security before looking for and introducing more advanced security and
protection mechanisms, which, in the absence of the above, may bring no value.