Designing Databases
Another solution to protect your database is to have a seperate backend network exclusively used for database traffic. Your webserver(s) would have two interface cards: one facing the world, one facing the internal database network. This way- there's no chance of intercepting database traffic from the outside.
Connecting to Database
You may want to establish the connections over SSL to encrypt client/server communications for increased security, or you can use ssh to encrypt the network connection between clients and the database server. If either of these is used, then monitoring your traffic and gaining information about your database will be difficult for a would-be attacker.
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aastaneh at cmax2 dot com
27-Jul-2006 07:28
27-Jul-2006 07:28
07-Oct-2005 12:20
Obviously, this does not apply if PHP and the DBMS are running on the same machine.