Question

1. Is it important to encrypt your database? Does the Academic Database have sensitive data that needs to be encrypted? Why or why not? Address these questions in the space below; your answer should be addressed in 100 to 150 words.

2. Which of the case studies that you read (Walmart, Target or 5 Big Data Industries) caught your attention and why? Before reading the articles, did you think about data being used in the manner that it is? Name one other organization that may be using data warehousing and data mining techniques and explain how it is being used. Or explain how after years of collecting data how the data in the Academic Database that was implemented in Modules 6 and 7 can be useful to the academic institution? Explain your answer in 100 to 150.

Answer 1

1. Database Encryption helps in protecting the data from unauthorized access. It also reduces the risk of the data being compromised or hacked. It is very important to encrypt database in order to protect sensitive information or personal information being accessed by unauthorized personnel. If data is hacked it also results in financial loss, thus providing further reasons to encrypt and protect the data.

Apparently Academic Database does not contain as much sensitive information as a banking database or a medical database. However, Academic Database still contains personal identifiable information like address, phone number etc. Sometimes it might also contain payment details / bank / card information of students and teachers. Hence it needs to be encrypted.