Security
You can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
External resources
- IBM® Data
Server Security Blueprint (PDF document)
Discover the steps that you can take to help secure your database server and the data on your system. - Protect enterprise data at rest with encryption,
access controls and auditing (White paper)
Learn how IBM InfoSphere® Guardium® Encryption Expert can protect enterprise data at rest with encryption, access controls and auditing. - Private installation feature of Informix: Client
perspective (IBM
developerWorks®)
A private, or non-root, installation does not require root privileges or the user informix or group informix on the computer. This article discusses how you can install Informix as a non-root user and manage authenticated users and connectivity. - Understand the trusted context feature in Informix
(IBM
developerWorks)
This article describes trusted connections and trusted contexts, and shows how to manage trusted contexts using JDBC, ESQL/C, and ODBC drivers. - Event-driven fine-grained auditing with Informix
(IBM
developerWorks)
This article describes using the DataBlade API to generate auditing events from transactions. Learn about trigger introspection to create a generic auditing function that can be applied to any table.
Main resource