DB2 Hardening

Posted on: 2009-04-01 by Giuseppe Gottardi - Guido Landi, SD-Team



Historically DB2 has lived on a mainframe and resided in a fairly secure network. More and more we see DB2 exposed to the large world and used as backend for web applications. With these changes in DB2 comes increased risk. This article has the objectives to define the minimum security requirements for configuring and managing DB2 databases and it comes as part from the OWASP Backend Security Project.

You can read the entire article following this OWASP Foundation link.