database-security

database-security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (939 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Security guidance for database design and operation, covering encryption, accounts and permissions, auditing, backups, data integrity, connections, and deployment settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing or reviewing database schemas, access rules, connection handling, credential management, encryption, audit logs, backups, and production deployments.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of unauthorized access, data exposure, damaged records, weak credentials, and unrecoverable database failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the prodsec-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhatproductsecurity/prodsec-skills/database-security
Any agent
npx skills add RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills --skill database-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install prodsec-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 939 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00043 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash d76ecdaeeae9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-security scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

module/skills/database-security/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Security

Design

Encryption

  • Encrypt all communication with the database (TLS in transit)
  • Encrypt the database at rest (filesystem, tablespace, or application-level encryption)

Auditing

  • Enable database auditing to log accesses and configuration changes
  • Audit logs should capture authentication events, privilege changes, and data access patterns

Data Integrity

  • Separate test databases from production databases; never share credentials between environments
  • Back up data regularly and document the backup and restore process
  • Use polyinstantiation to provide multiple views of the same object, preventing unauthorized users from inferring sensitive data
  • Apply database normalization to reduce data redundancy and improve integrity
  • Implement triggers to enforce referential integrity, prevent invalid operations, and apply complex security rules

Implementation

Least-Privilege Access

  • Applications MUST connect with the lowest possible level of privilege
  • Use different credentials for every trust level (regular user, read-only user, guest, administrator)
  • Users and applications MUST use separate accounts; never share authentication between them

Credential Management

  • Use secure credentials for all database access
  • Never hardcode connection strings in application code; store them in a separate configuration file on a trusted system, encrypted
  • Rotate credentials regularly

Configuration

Default Hardening

  • Remove or change all default administrative passwords; use strong passphrases or MFA
  • Turn off all unnecessary database functionality (stored procedures, utility packages, unnecessary services)
  • Remove default vendor content (sample schemas, example databases)
  • Install only the minimum set of features and options required (surface area reduction)

Backend Isolation

  • Isolate database servers from other systems and limit host connections
  • Disable network (TCP) access when possible; use local socket files or named pipes
  • Configure database to bind only on localhost when remote access is not required
  • Restrict network port access to specific hosts with firewall rules
  • Place database server in separate DMZ isolated from application server
  • Never allow direct connections from thick clients to backend database

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 103 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d76ecdaeeae9

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database-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 939 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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