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Using Oracle Database Firewall
Scott D. RosenbergAccess management, Center of Internet Security (CIS), Compliance, Contract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Database security, DSS (Data Security Standard), Enterprise Agreement, GRC (Governance, HIPAA, Identity management, IT Asset Management, IT Security, Licensing Change Alert, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Microsoft: News You Can Use, Miro News, Oracle database, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, PCI (Payment Card Industry), Risk, Security Assessments, Security Risk, software asset management, Software audit, SQL, Uncategorized, VirtualizationLeave a Comment on 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 Salesforce Challenge: Oracle Are You Ready?
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Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff has just issued a challenge in the way of Database.com, an open source “in the cloud” database system. It’s supposed to be totally open, scalable and work beautifully with Salesforce.com. The skinny, it’s supposed to be a developer’s dream – open to any and all platforms from cloud to server; any language and any device. So, is Oracle ready? Yes. Larry Ellison has it right. Cloud computing is not something you dive into by moving your sensitive […]

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