Oracle Security: Oracle’s Audit All Command Doesn’t Really Audit All

When attempting to make their Oracle database as secure as possible, many organizations turn on Oracle’s auditing feature. Oracle has a very robust auditing feature that enables us to log every action taken in the database. We can audit connections, object creation, data updates, deletes, and many other database activities. Some organizations turn on auditing […]

Bridge the Gap Between Database Security and Application Security

Strong Database Security Today’s database systems have sophisticated security mechanisms designed to enable the protection of data and the tracking of the viewing and modification of the data. For example, Oracle has database roles that govern what database objects a user can see and edit.  Oracle also has auditing features that enable us to track […]

Database Security Issues in the Cloud: Part 1

Cloud Database Security Issues And Challenges The benefits of cloud computing, including reduced IT ownership and operating costs and improved resource utilization, are just too good for many organizations to pass up. More and more businesses of all sizes are moving a wide range of applications to cloud environments. But database security concerns remain a […]