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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

Adding policy to a group


In this recipe, create VPD policies as part of a policy group.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you'll need an existing user who has appropriate privileges (for example, maja). If you completed previous recipes, drop all VPD policies using the DBMS_RLS.DROP_POLICY procedure.

Figure 27 - Drop policies

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the database as a user who has appropriate privileges (for example, the user maja):

    $ sqlplus maja
    
  2. Add TEST_POL1 to policy group pol_grp_A.

  3. Add TEST_COL to policy group pol_grp_A.

  4. Add TEST_POL2 to policy group pol_grp_B.

  5. Create a logon trigger.

  6. Connect to the database as the user joel using SQL*Plus and execute the SELECT statement, as shown in Figure 32.

    Figure 32

  7. View data in the table hr.emp_vpd_test.

    Figure 33

  8. Connect to the database as the user susan using SQL*Plus and view data in the table hr.emp_vpd_test:

    SQL> connect susan
    
  9. Connect as the user emma using SQL Developer and view data in the table hr.emp_vpd_test.