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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
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Preface

Enabling, disabling, and dropping redaction policy


In this recipe, you will perform the three basic tasks: enabling, disabling, and dropping the same redaction policy (CUST_POL), which you defined in the Creating a redaction policy when using full redaction recipe using SQL*Plus. Also, you will check which redaction policies exist in the database and whether they are enforced (enabled).

To minimize dependence on the previous recipes in this chapter, a result shown after querying data dictionary view is equivalent to the one you would get if you completed only the Creating a redaction policy when using full redaction recipe before starting to do this recipe. The only difference you may see in the result is the number of existing redaction policies in the database.

Getting ready

Before doing this recipe, you should have completed the Creating a redaction policy when using full redaction recipe.

How to do it...

To complete the tasks, you will use procedures in the dbms_redact package (disable_policy...