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Oracle Magazine
September/October 2012

COMMENT: Time Capsule

  

Time Capsule

  

1974

Halt, Who Goes There?

“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”

Quote from Blazing Saddles
(Warner Bros. Pictures, 1974).
Identity management, anyone?
 

1977

Your Turn


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Secure from the Start

“Security has been part of Oracle’s corporate DNA since we’ve been a company,” says Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson. And with good reason: Oracle’s first customer? The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Watch the video at bit.ly/dnasecure.

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1992

Database with Full Auditing

Oracle7 is the first database to include full auditing per the U.S. Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) Orange Book C2 definition.
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2002

Know Who, Know How

Identity management is typically seen through the eyes of the beholder. Some people think of smart cards or biometrics; others, single sign-on or a directory. But it’s actually all the processes and technologies that manage the complete security and identity lifecycle for people and network entities in an organization. —Oracle Magazine, September/October 2004

  

2006

Security Inside

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Oracle Database Vault addresses many of the key business concerns that organizations face today: regulatory compliance, separation of duty, strong internal controls, and concerns around database consolidation security as well as reporting. —Oracle Magazine, September/October 2006

  

2011

Data Breach? That’ll Cost You

Hackers and spyware and spam, oh my! According to a recent IDC survey, almost half of companies reported a financial loss of more than US$100,000 per data breach event, while 8.5 percent of companies reported a financial loss of more than US$1 million.

Source: “Effective Data Leak Prevention Programs: Start by Protecting Data at the Source: Your Database,” International Data Corporation white paper, August 2011

Feeling Insecure?


We asked our Facebook fans which of the following IT security threats they view as most significant:

56% Trojans, viruses, malware, spyware
16% Employees exposing information
16% Data stolen by trusted party
12% Hackers/corporate espionage

2012

Lockdown

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File under Sleep, Losing: Two-thirds of sensitive and regulated data resides in databases, and unless the databases are protected using a multilayered security architecture, that data is at risk. File under Risk, Mitigating: Oracle Database Firewall, Oracle Advanced Security, and Oracle Database Vault. —Oracle Magazine, July/August 2012

    

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