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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

Creating and using Oracle Database Vault reports


Oracle Vault has an integrated reporting system that can be used for generating reports for specific Oracle Database Vault components, and for general database security. In the next series of recipes, we will generate some specific Oracle Database Vault reports as well as some reports related to general database security.

Getting ready

In the previous recipes, we have created all the Oracle Vault objects with the audit options disabled. During this series of recipes, we will enable the Audit Options to Audit On Success or Failure on the realms and command rules created earlier, and we will generate several related audit reports. We will also generate some general database security reports related to privileges, audit, passwords, and so on.

How to do it...

The reporting system provided by Oracle Database Vault is a built in component of Oracle Database Vault Administrator Console:

  1. Navigate to the Realm page, check HR_TABLES_REALM , and click on...