In my research pertaining to trends and developments influencing the market for, and the application of, data-centric security and protection that organizations will want to keep abreast of in 2016-2107, I have explored database threat protection solutions. These facilitate the discovery of all databases in the network (including those undocumented) and continuous monitoring of databases to identify malicious activity. New products employing machine learning (ML) and behavioral analysis to protect databases and facilitate real-time identification of compromised database credentials are available.