T 3.23 Improper administration of a DBMS

The careless or improper administration of a database management system (DBMS) can pose the following potential threats:

• loss of data,
• manipulation of data (intentionally or unintentionally),
• unauthorised access to confidential data,
• loss of database integrity,
• database crashes, and
• destruction of the database.

The threats listed above can also arise when users are granted rights that are too extensive, when the database is monitored irregularly or not at all, when data backups are performed incorrectly, when there are invalid IDs that have not been blocked yet, etc.