Friday 15 July 2016

Oracle Database Security

1. Why Database Security ?

   Databases are the core component of enterprises as it holds business information over the years, hence Data protection is very much essential  and so Databases. 

2. Why Oracle Database Security ?

   Oracle offers customers an end to end security product and solutions to meet customer business needs in securing their infrastructure. Oracle Database security product portfolio contains.

1. Database Vault
2. Database Masking and Subsetting
3. Transparent Data Encryption and Data Reduction
4. Data Encryption
5. Oracle Wallet
6. Oracle Key Vault
7. Audit Vault and Database Firewall

Majority of Oracle Database security products supports both on premises and oracle public cloud infrastructures.


Oracle Database Masking and Subsetting : 

Oracle Database Masking and Subsetting pack in Oracle Enterprise Manager enables organisation to maximize the business value of their production data by leveraging it in various non-production system while at the same time ensuring that copied data is full sanitized to maintain security and privacy remain in compliance with regulation and keep costs low.

* Data Masking and Subsetting solution makes it easy and identify sensitive data through automated discovery jobs and reusable data models.

* It provides an integrated solution to mask and optionally subset data in a single workflow.

* It provides high fidelity data outputs by explicitly tracking data relationship and maintains referential integrity.

* It facilitates masking and subsetting data in databases or by real time extraction of data in a database.

* It provides to mask Oracle and Non-Oracle databases.

* Supports local and Oracle public cloud databases in a single solution.

High Level steps for masking and subsetting:

1. Create Data Model: Discovers Sensitive Data and Data relationship

2. Select formats and criteria : Masking formats and Templates, Goals and Conditions for subsetting

3. Preview and Validate : Preview masking algorithm results, preview subset reduction results

4. Execute Transformation : In Database mode or In Expert Mode




Thanking You,

Manoj Kumar 
Oracle Database Security Consultant, EMEA presales