New Community version of GreenSQL Database Firewall, version 1.3 is now available.
GreenSQL 1.3 includes new features, many bug fixes and enhancements.

In this version, GreenSQL improvers the native support for PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) databases, improvers the native support for MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) databases and provides many Protocol and Network Optimizations. The Web Based GUI usability has been improved and many bugs been fixed.

GreenSQL community version 1.3.0 improvements and enhancements include:

1. Proxies dashboard: correctly displaying the proxy current status
2. Proxies automatic reloading fixes
3. Alerts include User IP Address
4. MySQL and PostgreSQL protocol fixes
5. Network optimizations
6. Alerts – redesign and graphics
7. …

We are proud to announce the release of GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light, our first commercial Unified Database Security solutions, designed to provide all organizations – from small and medium businesses all the way to large enterprises – robust database security at an affordable price.

“Commercial Unified Database Security solutions” is a mouthful. Let’s look at what that means.

For us, commercial has several meanings. First, we have designed GreenSQL Pro for commercial organizations; second, we charge a modest fee for it; and third, unlike our open source code, we take full responsibility for it.

How about unified? To be unified, something must first have parts. GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light include many aspects of database security within them, all contributing to their primary mission: securing databases. We’ll be discussing some of those aspects below.

And of course, there’s database. …

Since the early days of GreenSQL, many people have written us asking why exactly they should implement a database security solution if they have already hardened their web application and are using a web application firewall, like mod_security, or even a professional closed source web application firewall such as Imperva, Breach, or F5.

The answer is not as simple as you may think, and I’m not going to preach to you about the great advantages using GreenSQL in front of your MySQL or PostgreSQL Database.

I’m going to highlight a few obvious current situations which will help you see the full picture of your Database security needs.

What is the core of the company?

When you come right down to it, the Database, eventually, is the core of your company or organization. All the information that the company is built upon is located in the Database. Without it, your company or organization cannot …

GreenSQL- December 2, 2009

GreenSQL has just announced that version 1.2 of its database firewall will provide PostgreSQL databases with the same protection from SQL Injection already enjoyed by MySQL databases. GreenSQL version 1.2 is now available for download as Open Source software from the company’s website at http://www.greensql.net/download

PostgreSQL is a popular Open Source database in wide use by small to medium-sized businesses. Currently, there is no solution, either Open or Closed Source, that provides a database firewall for PostgreSQL databases. As a result, they may be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, one of the most widespread ways for gaining access to sensitive information stored in a database and/or taking control of a host server.

SQL injection, widely used by criminals, tricks Web applications into providing protected information from a database by exploiting existing queries such as user …