• How BS 7799/ISO 17799 applies to databases and applications
• How MySQL 5 can be leveraged to improve security and fullfill security demands:
  Securing an installation
  Securing communication with encryption and certificates
  
• Restricting users: Access control, traditional methods, and updateable views define what database users can do and cannot do
• Auditing with logs and stored procedures: How to get a proper audit trail out of your database, and requirements for this
• Preparing for desaster revovery and estimating MTTR: How to stay online in the face of disaster, and how to come back online quickly if you can't
• What logs can tell you
• Application vs. database: where database security ends and application security starts—things your database cannot know, and actions your database never sees, so you must handle them elsewhere

All this is shown using anonymized real world examples of do's and don'ts.