MS SQL Server JDBC

How Secure is Your MS SQL Server JDBC Driver?

Designers and administrators of distributed business applications must contend with a range of security risks. DoS attacks, packet sniffing, and SQL injection attacks are just a few of the hazards that face data-driven distributed applications, such as those that use JDBC to interface with MS SQL Server back ends. Depending on its design and engineering, your MS SQL Server JDBC database driver can either enhance or detract from overall application security.

Progress® DataDirect, the world’s leading provider of data connectivity products and solutions, makes the most secure MS SQL Server JDBC driver on the market. In addition to helping to safeguard your sensitive data, Progress DataDirect’s driver for MS SQL Server JDBC also delivers superior performance and reliability.

Progress DataDirect Connect: Unmatched Security for MS SQL Server JDBC

Unlike competing drivers, Progress DataDirect Connect® drivers for JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET incorporate industry-best security technologies as standard features, ensuring safe data exchange between your user applications and your back-end database. Our MS SQL Server JDBC driver and other drivers help to protect your sensitive data in multiple ways, including:

• Data encryption. With a Connect JDBC SQL Server driver, you get built-in support for industry-standard TLS/SSL data encryption, as well as for native encryption algorithms supported by the RDBMS. You can choose to have the driver encrypt all communications between your Java applications and your MS SQL Server back end, so that if data were ever intercepted in the network it would be impossible to read or to modify in any meaningful way.
• Streamlined communication architecture. Connect drivers use a unique “wire protocol” design to communicate with the database directly over TCP/IP, without requiring database client libraries as an intervening layer. This streamlined design eliminates a potential point of vulnerability and also prevents the memory leaks sometimes associated with database client libraries.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) support. The Connect MS SQL Server JDBC driver supports Kerberos-based or NTLM authentication mechanisms, enabling you to incorporate database access into a secure Single Sign-On structure.

MS SQL Server JDBC Performance and Reliability

Leveraging a breakthrough JDBC Type 5 design, the Progress DataDirect Connect MS SQL Server JDBC driver dramatically outperforms competing JDBC drivers for data throughput, as well as CPU and memory efficiency—as proven in exhaustive benchmarking. Rigorously tested in the industry’s best quality assurance labs, Connect drivers deliver dependability, performance, and data security for thousands of organizations around the world.

The Progress DataDirect Connect suite features drivers for every JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET connectivity environment, including ODBC for SQL Server and ADO.NET for Oracle with Entity Framework support. You can conveniently download an MS SQL Server JDBC driver from our Web site, or do a JDBC Oracle download, an ODBC Oracle download, and many others.

Learn more about Progress DataDirect JDBC drivers, or download a driver today and start your free trial.