DBSec Database Security Assessment System vs Free SQL Server Compliance Benchmark Tool

DBSec Database Security Assessment System, identified as DSAS, supports data-security governance by combining asset discovery, risk assessment, sensitive-data analysis, and usage management. Network sniffing finds databases across corporate, branch, and wide-area networks and builds an asset list. Scans check DBMS vulnerabilities, weak policies, default settings, risky code, excessive privileges, and weak passwords. DSAS evaluates asset value, vulnerabilities, and threats, then produces risk reports and remediation advice. It maps sensitive-data distribution and volume, manages models describing sensitive characteristics, and records related business systems and departments. Change monitoring follows sensitive-data growth, high-risk account changes, unknown access sources, data flows, and access behavior. Listed database support includes Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, DM, KingBase, Gbase, Teradata, and Hive. Beijing DBSEC Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2009, lists pricing on request.

Free SQL Server Compliance Benchmark Tool assesses SQL Server security and configuration against established best practices. It covers on-premises SQL Server installations and Azure SQL Managed Instances, with more than 80 checks across platform configuration, surface area reduction, authentication, encryption, and auditing. The tool can generate a SQL Server Security Compliance Benchmark output in PDF format. It uses core capabilities of the XIA Configuration compliance benchmarking platform and offers a trial of SQL Server documentation functionality found in XIA Configuration Express. The tool is free; requesting it requires a full name and business email address. CENTREL, the company behind the tool, is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, and was founded in 2008. CENTREL says its technical support staff are based in the UK and that remote support requires the customer's explicit consent, using tools such as TeamViewer and Microsoft Teams. The stated deployment is hybrid, and cloud databases and compliance templates are listed as supported.