Securing the data in a database is typically as important a concern as is its design. Research database security on the web, and then respond to the following: Describe a few security risks that databases must be protected against. Describe some steps that can be taken to ensure that a database is secured. Solution Risks : 1) excess privileges : many users are provided with default priveleges out of which some are not necessary for them and may be misused. 2) database injection attacks like SQL and No-SQL attacks are used to fetch confidential data and manipulate it 3)malware - application that capture private data 4) Unprotected storage media like backup disks and tapes. 5) lack of professional to handle security mechanisms. Mitigation steps : 1)monitoring DB access activity with user identification 2) remove excess rights 3) train more number of secirity professionals 4) block malicious requests to data.