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Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook

By : Adrian Neagu
Book Image

Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook

By: Adrian Neagu

Overview of this book

For almost all organizations, data security is a matter of prestige and credibility. The Oracle Database is one of the most rich in features and probably the most used Database in a variety of industries where security is essential. To ensure security of data both in transit and on the disk, Oracle has implemented the security technologies to achieve a reliable and solid system. In Oracle 11g Anti-Hacker's Cookbook, you will learn about the most important solutions that can be used for better database security."Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook" covers all the important security measures and includes various tips and tricks to protect your Oracle Database."Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook" uses real-world scenarios to show you how to secure the Oracle Database server from different perspectives and against different attack scenarios. Almost every chapter has a possible threads section, which describes the major dangers that can be confronted. The initial chapters cover how to defend the operating system, the network, the data and the users. The defense scenarios are linked and designed to prevent these attacks. The later chapters cover Oracle Vault, Oracle VPD, Oracle Labels, and Oracle Audit. Finally, in the Appendices, the book demonstrates how to perform a security assessment against the operating system and the database, and how to use a DAM tool for monitoring.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Oracle Database Vault can be described as a security framework developed primarily for the purpose of implementing fine-grained access control to objects. Oracle Database Vault functionality provides additional capabilities to restrict access to sensitive data and can apply controls that are not currently available with the traditional privilege model.

By using Oracle Database Vault, practically every database object can be isolated from unauthorized access by the users with any type privileges, including super-privileged users such as DBAs or power users such as SYS and SYSTEM. Oracle Database Vault also has the ability to filter DML and DDL statements against the database, by using virtually unlimited combinations of parameters, such as the IP address, time, connection protocol, and authentication type with realms, factors, command sets, command rules, and secure application roles.

The next series of recipes will cover the main components that make up Oracle Database Vault,...