C. Establishing the Importance of Security Mechanisms
After devising the list of expected security mechanisms
for a database software package, an obvious problem arises:
some mechanisms are more relevant than others in terms of
security. One certainty is that this relevance is directly
related to the security best practices each mechanism allows
implementing. This way, our proposal is that the relevance of
the mechanisms should be inherited from the relevance of the practices. The problem, however, is difficult to solve as
this importance is usually dependent on the environment and
may vary under different contexts.