THE COST OF DATA LOSS IS RISING progressively every year. Companies are losingdata due to malicious attacks and improper implementation of database security and auditing. Data integrity and accessibility must be protected in order to ensure the company operability. This book is designed to provide the reader with an understanding of security concepts and practices in general and those specific to database security in a highly detailed implementation. Not only will the reader gain a good understanding of database security, the reader will be shown how to develop database applications embedding from simple to sophisticated security and auditing models using Oracle10g and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.