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Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

By : Zoran Pavlovic, Maja Veselica
Book Image

Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

By: Zoran Pavlovic, Maja Veselica

Overview of this book

Businesses around the world are paying much greater attention toward database security than they ever have before. Not only does the current regulatory environment require tight security, particularly when dealing with sensitive and personal data, data is also arguably a company’s most valuable asset - why wouldn’t you want to protect it in a secure and reliable database? Oracle Database lets you do exactly that. It’s why it is one of the world’s leading databases – with a rich portfolio of features to protect data from contemporary vulnerabilities, it’s the go-to database for many organizations. Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook helps DBAs, developers, and architects to better understand database security challenges. Let it guide you through the process of implementing appropriate security mechanisms, helping you to ensure you are taking proactive steps to keep your data safe. Featuring solutions for common security problems in the new Oracle Database 12c, with this book you can be confident about securing your database from a range of different threats and problems.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Setting master encryption key in software keystore


In this recipe, you're going to create the first master key for the password-based software keystore you created and opened in the previous recipe.

Getting ready

It is assumed that software keystore is already opened. To complete this recipe, you'll need an existing user who has the SYSKM administrative or administer key management privilege (for example, maja).

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the database as a user who has the SYSKM administrative or administer key management privilege (for example, maja):

    $ sqlplus maja
    
  2. Create a master key for the password-based keystore (Figure 7 shows the creation of master key for the keystore you created in the recipe Creating and opening the keystore):

    SQL> ADMINISTER KEY MANAGEMENT SET KEY IDENTIFIED BY
           keystore_password
    	   WITH BACKUP
    	   USING 'desc_purpose';
    

    Figure 7

There's more...

The WITH BACKUP clause in step 2 instructs Oracle Database to create a backup of a keystore before the creation...