Thursday 12 January 2012

GreenSQL – SQL Database Firewall


GreenSQLGreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works as a proxy and has built in support for MySQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known db administrative commands (DROP, CREATE, etc). GreenSQL is distributed under the GPL license.
GreenSQL-FW: 1.0.0 Released :
GreenSQL team is ready to present new version of GreenSQL. GreenSQL intercept SQL commands being sent to MySQL, checks them, and then either halts the query or passes it on to MySQL proper. Then it returns the query results to the calling application. Currently only MySQL database is supported. This release includes a new version of firewall and a management application.
This is a major application release geared towards application stability, ease of use, performance increase and elimination of bugs.
This release includes a number of pre-build packages of popular operating systems. Supply packages for CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian.
List of changes:
1. Code optimization.
2. Fixed a number of bugs related to networking connectivity.
3. Extended support for specific MySQL SQL commands.
4. Ease of use.
New management version is numbered 0.5.0
New firewall version is numbered 1.0.0

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