Yes, Bunky, database security is still in it's infancy, case in point - those wonderful bits of NoSQL...
"...So, yes, the NoSQL world has gone mad, and that's because the big data show is being run by developers, not architects or even system administrators. These developers clearly don't realize that 14% of all breaches last year were caused by compromised database servers. That's second only to point-of-sale servers in terms of a single point of weakness and well above the 9% of breaches that involved Web application servers, according to Verizon's Data Breach Incident Report. It seems developers are stuck in 1998, when perimeter security was state of the art... - via InformationWeeks' Michael Davis