Upcoming Webinar: Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2011 Database Impact
Oracle October 2011 CPU - Oracle Database ImpactThursday, November 3, 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDTEvery quarter, Oracle releases a Critical Patch Update (CPU) that fixes a number of security vulnerabilities in...
View ArticleIntegrigy Oracle Listener Security Check Tool Updated
We have updated our free Oracle Database Listener Security Check tool that analyzes security of the Oracle Database TNS Listener to identify potential security issues. The tool performs four basic...
View ArticleIntegrigy Oracle Listener Security Check Tool Updated (version 2.2)
We have updated our free Oracle Database Listener Security Check tool that analyzes security of the Oracle Database TNS Listener to identify potential security issues.Two new features have been added...
View ArticleCOLLABORATE11 - IOUG Operation Classified: Security Hackfest
For those of you not familiar with COLLABORATE or have not previously attended, the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) have teamed together to host a...
View ArticleOracle Critical Patch Update April 2011 Pre-Release Analysis
Here is a brief analysis of the pre-release announcement for the upcoming April 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) - Overall, 47 Oracle security vulnerabilities (non-Solaris bugs) are fixed in...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2011 - Oracle Database...
Oracle April 2011 CPU - Oracle Database ImpactThursday, May 5, 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDTEvery quarter, Oracle releases a Critical Patch Update (CPU) that fixes a number of security vulnerabilities in the...
View ArticleLogging Actual Application User Names for Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP,...
Knowing which person, not just which database account, has been a challenge for database logging and auditing when working with enterprise software applications such as the Oracle E-Business Suite,...
View ArticleLogging Oracle Database Link Activity
A database link is a one-way connection between two databases. Starting with Oracle version 11.2.0.3, database session information now reports additional information for those sessions involving...
View ArticleOracle Database Last Logins with Oracle 12c
Tracking when database users last logged in is a common security and compliance requirement – for example to reconcile users and identify stale users. With Oracle 12c this analysis can now be done...
View ArticleWhat Is Oracle Release 12c Unified Auditing?
In Oracle 12c, a new database auditing foundation has been introduced. Oracle Unified Auditing changes the fundamental auditing functionality of the database. In previous releases of Oracle, there...
View ArticleWhat Mode of Oracle 12c Unified Auditing Are You Using and Default Auditing...
Continuing our blog series on Oracle 12 Unified Auditing, how do you know what mode of Unified Auditing that you are using? Use the following SQL –SELECT VALUE FROM V$OPTION WHERE PARAMETER = 'Unified...
View ArticleOracle 12c Unified Auditing - Pure Mode
Continuing our blog series on Oracle 12 Unified Auditing is a discussion of Pure Mode. Mixed mode is intended by Oracle to introduce Unified Auditing and provide a transition from the traditional...
View ArticleOracle 12c Unified Auditing - Mixed Mode
Next in our blog series on Oracle 12 Unified Auditing is a discussion of Mixed Mode. Mixed Mode is the default auditing mode for Oracle 12c. Oracle describes Mixed Mode auditing as a means of becoming...
View ArticleWhat Is Oracle 12 Unified Auditing? The View UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL with 94 Columns
What is Oracle 12c Unified Auditing? The short answer is the view UNIFED_AUDIT_TRAIL. This view consolidates all logging and auditing information into a single source. Regardless of using either Mixed...
View ArticleMandatory Auditing - Oracle 12c Always-On-Auditing
Certainly from an auditing and logging perspective, one of the best new features delivered by Oracle 12c is mandatory auditing of the administrative users such as SYSDBA. This can be described as...
View ArticleIntegrigy Guide to Database Auditing and Logging
Most clients do not fully take advantage of their database's auditing and logging features. For databases such as Oracle these features are sophisticated and are able to satisfy most organization’s...
View ArticleWhat can the Oracle Audit Vault Protect?
For Oracle database customers the Oracle Audit Vault can protect the following:SQL statements logs – Data Manipulation Language (DML) statement auditing such as when users are attempting to query the...
View ArticleWhat Do Oracle Audit Vault Collection Agents Do?
The Oracle Audit Vault is installed on a server, and collector agents are installed on the hosts running the source databases. These collector agents communicate with the audit vault server. If the...
View ArticleOracle Audit Vault Oracle Database Plug-In
The Oracle Audit Vault uses Plug-Ins to define data sources. The following table summarizes several of the important facts about the Oracle Audit Vault database plug for Oracle databases –Oracle...
View ArticleLogging and Auditing Oracle Database Webinar
The auditing and logging capabilities within the Oracle Database are sophisticated and able to satisfy most organizations' security and compliance requirements. However, the auditing and logging setup...
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