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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

Creating and opening the keystore


In this recipe, you're going to create a password-based keystore. Open it and learn to check its status.

Getting ready

It is assumed that the keystore location is already configured (instructions are given in the recipe Configuring keystore location in sqlnet.ora). In this recipe, you'll grant, as the SYS user, administer key management privilege, or SYSKM administrative privilege to an existing user (for example, maja).

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the database as a user who can grant administer key management privilege (for example, SYS) and grant the privilege to an existing user (for example, maja).

  2. To create a password-based software keystore, connect to the database as the user in the previous step (for example, maja) and execute the following statement (after you change parameters so that they are appropriate for your environment) (an example is shown in Figure 3):

    SQL> ADMINISTER KEY MANAGEMENT CREATE KEYSTORE 'keystore_location' 
           IDENTIFIED...