Database Security Courses and Certifications

Packt

PostgreSQL 17: Optimizing Performance & Security

Tune PostgreSQL 17 for speed and safety: read execution plans, configure logging and statistics, write PL/pgSQL stored procedures, and manage roles, pg_hba.conf, and row-level permissions.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

SQL All-in-One For Dummies

Progress from relational database foundations to advanced SQL: build queries, model databases, manipulate data, secure databases, tune performance, and work with XML and JSON.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

CompTIA DataSys+ Study Guide

Learn database fundamentals with SQL and scripting, then deploy, maintain and optimize databases and secure them through governance, compliance and business continuity practices for DataSys+ certification.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Coursera

SQL Infrastructure: Secure and Optimize

Configure SQL warehouse resource pools with Resource Governor, audit data permissions to close security gaps, and run post-mortem root cause analyses of system failures.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Intermediate SQL: Querying, Data Manipulation, and Security

Write advanced SQL: subqueries, UNION/INTERSECT and joins, cursors, transaction management, DCL access privileges, error handling, and defenses against SQL injection and hardware failure.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Database Deployment and Maintenance Essentials

Plan and validate database deployments, then monitor, maintain, and optimize databases through metrics tracking, backup strategies, and query efficiency, in line with the CompTIA DataSys+ objectives.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Network, System, and Application Security Testing

A practical security-testing sweep spanning network, wireless, mobile, operating systems, email, web applications, and databases, with vulnerability identification and targeted countermeasures.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Telusko

Spring Security 6 Tutorial - From Basics to Database Authentication

Comprehensive guide to Spring Security 6, covering authentication, CSRF protection, database integration, and password encoding for robust application security.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Telusko

Spring Security - Verify User from Database - Lecture 33

Learn to implement user verification from a database using Spring Security, enhancing application security and authentication processes.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Black Hat

Security Industry Call-to-Action - We Need a Cloud Vulnerability Database

Examines why conventional CVE workflows fail for cloud vulnerabilities and proposes an open, cloud-friendly vulnerability identifier and database.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Overview of how IBM Security Guardium supports data-centric auditing and protection.

• IBM Training
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer

15 ratings at Udemy

Prepare for the GCP Database Engineer exam: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Spanner, migration strategies, IAM security (Hands-on)

• Udemy
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Relational Database Administration (DBA)

7 ratings at edX

This course helps you develop the foundational skills required to perform the role of a Database Administrator (DBA) including designing, implementing, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting and autom

• edX
• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Amazon Web Services;  Amazon

Building with Amazon RDS Databases

Configure Amazon RDS for encrypted connections, automated secret rotation, and tested Multi-AZ failover.

• AWS Skill Builder
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Encryption at Rest

Encrypt MongoDB data at rest with customer-managed keys (BYOK), integrating key management systems and configuring encryption policies for stronger security and compliance.

• MongoDB University
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate