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Category: Compliance

Using Oracle Database Firewall

We’re all familiar with network firewalls, which prevent unauthorized access to your network from external sources. However, network firewalls don’t protect your databases from malicious attacks, which sometimes come disguised as privileged internal users. Web applications are a major source of data attacks, through stratagems such as SQL Injection, for example. Oracle’s Database Firewall (a product Oracle gained through its acquisition of Secerno, a British firm, in 2010) offers a solid defensive perimeter to monitor and enforce accepted behavior on […]

The New Ponemon Institute End Point Security Report

Ponemon Institute has just (Dec 2010) released a new State of Endpoint report (http://www.lumension.com/Media_Files/Documents/Marketing—Sales/Others/Ponemon—State-of-Endpoint-Risk.aspx). The study, sponsored by Lumension, reveals that a full 64 percent of the 570 respondents surveyed report that their networks are less secure than they were a year ago, or they aren’t sure. And 58 percent report that their security costs are increasing, with malware incidents being the main driver of the escalating costs. A very interesting thing to note is the fact that most IT […]

What is Oracle Data Masking?

Oracle Data Masking is an Option offered for use with Oracle’s databases. Data masking provides a way to de-identify data. When might a company need to de-identify its data? Well, companies service their customers through data stored in their production databases. However, the production database isn’t the only place that sensitive data is stored. Almost every company supports its production databases with various data stores called testing, development or staging databases. Privacy and regulatory mandates call for securing and protecting […]

Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle Advanced Security (OAS) is an Option that you can purchase for your Oracle databases. What exactly can OAS do for you? There are two key things that you can do with OAS – encrypt what is called data “at rest” and data “in flight”. The data at test that OAS lets you protect is the data stored on your storage disks, whether they are in database storage or in backup storage. Since your database and backup data is stored […]

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