Securing an Enterprise Level Database Accessed Over the Public Internet

ABSTRACT Since the Internet was opened for public and commercial use, companies have pushed their information systems departments to expand the capabilities of electronic communication and e-commerce. Businesses grew based upon their own management of technology, each bringing new ideas and developments to the table. By 2006, it was difficult to find any business that does not have a presence on the Internet. Mere presence is not enough to make a business stand out anymore. To maintain competitiveness in this highly connected world, companies are looking for faster and more secure ways to conduct business. This includes not only the ability to communicate with the customers, but also includes the way different divisions of a company interact with each other electronically. In this paper, I will discuss how one company (referred to as the ABC Corp.) has developed and secured a content management system containing a product information database that produces and controls every sales piece used internally and externally from paper catalogs and sales flyers, to content ready for display on the World Wide Web.