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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

Auditing application contexts


In this recipe, you will configure auditing of information contained in an application context.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you'll need an existing (or predefined) application context and a user who has the audit_admin role (for example, jack).

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the database as a user who has the audit_admin role (for example, jack):

    $ sqlplus jack
    
  2. Configure application context auditing:

    SQL> AUDIT CONTEXT NAMESPACE USERENV
    ATTRIBUTES SESSION_USER, SERVICE_NAME;
    
    
    Audit succeeded.
    
    
    SQL> AUDIT CONTEXT NAMESPACE USERENV
    ATTRIBUTES HOST BY jill;
    Audit succeeded.
    
  3. View for which application contexts audit data is going to be captured:

    SQL> set linesize 180
    SQL> column namespace format A30
    SQL> column attribute format A30
    SQL> column user_name format A30
    
    SQL> select * from audit_unified_contexts;
    
  4. Connect user jill as follows:

    SQL> connect jill
    
  5. View audit records:

    SQL> SELECT APPLICATION_CONTEXTS FROM...