Today, we are living in an economy which is driven by data, starting from the organized desktop folders to the unorganized texts we send and receive every minute. As far as the organization is concerned, data being the most important asset is no less than treasure to them. Unfortunately, cyber criminals are well aware of this fact due to which cyber unethical activities such as hacking are quite common in such organizations. These increasing cyber-attacks and security threats to various organizations are the pivotal factors propelling the global database security assessment market









As the name suggests, database security assessment refers to the evaluation of important and confidential data and information that is stored in an organization’s database. The assessment offers estimation of several malicious threats and attacks, and protects the data from the possible cybercrimes. Various market players that are operating in the database security assessment market offer assessment services that include threat assessment, vulnerability assessment, and risk assessment





The rising initiatives in the form of government protocols, lawmakers and database security regulators for improving the structure of data security are continuously driving the growth of the global database security assessment market. However, the increasing cyber frauds with enterprises and rise in the adoption of IoT (internet of things) based services which led to the generation of more data, have fuelled the demand for database security solutions and services across industries and are forecasted to accelerate the market growth in the near future.





Additionally, the global database security assessment market is segmented on the basis of different regions such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World. In all the regions mentioned above, North America is considered to have a major share in the market. Besides this, Asia Pacific is declared as the fastest growing region in the database security assessment market during the forecast period. The key factor behind this is due to the extensive application of database security assessment solutions across various industries as government and BFSI, healthcare, and telecom and IT attributed to the massive flow of data for the growth of the sectors. Furthermore, the major companies that play a vital role in the database security assessment market globally are Oracle Corp., Absolute Software Corp, and IBM Corp., BlackBerry Ltd., FireEye, Inc., McAfee, LLC, Qualys, Inc. among several others.





Database security assessment services strengthen the internal operations of a company by preventing malicious attacks which keep the important information safe. Moreover, it protects the data through corruption of files or the programming errors, and ensures that physical harm to the server does not result in the loss of information. Security and protection are considered as the most significant and rapidly changing areas in database management. The key database management service (DBMS) vendors have been adding security features and improving the way by which they can protect the corporate data. Some of the methods which are available to protect the data include encryption, label-based access control, and data masking.











