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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

Dropping the analysis


In this recipe, you'll drop an existing privilege analysis policy. It has to be disabled before dropping; otherwise, you'll receive an error.

Getting ready

You'll need an existing user who can manage privilege analysis policies (has the CAPTURE_ADMIN role and the SELECT ANY DICTIONARY privilege), for example, the SYSTEM user and an existing privilege analysis policy.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the database as system or a user who has appropriate privileges:

    $ sqlplus system
    
  2. Drop a privilege analysis policy (for example, ALL_PRIV_POL, which you created in the first recipe in this chapter):

    SQL> BEGIN
         SYS.DBMS_PRIVILEGE_CAPTURE.DROP_CAPTURE(
         name => '<policy_name>');
         END;
    	 /
    

    Figure 57 - Drop policy

  3. Verify that all the records about the used and unused privileges, which have been gathered according to the policy, are also dropped:

    SQL> SELECT username, sys_priv, obj_priv, object_owner,
           object_name
    	   FROM DBA_USED_PRIVS
    	   WHERE capture...