The need to assign sensitivity labels to data has existed for hundreds of years and continues to exist today in virtually every industry. Scientific discoveries made in the 21st century are no more closely guarded than scientific discoveries made in the 17th century. In 1998 Oracle added Virtual Private Database (VPD) to the security features available in Oracle Enterprise Edition. VPD greatly enhances the ability to control access to data by giving administrators the ability to add security policies to objects in the Oracle RDBMS. With VPD, application size and complexity decrease while security increases. This is because the VPD security policy is centralized in the Oracle server. Oracle Label Security™ is a powerful new database security option for controlling access to individual data rows and protecting critical data. Built on the same technology as VPD, it provides exciting new security functionality for industries where confidentiality, privacy and data sensitivity are vital to the success of the enterprise. Healthcare, financial services, law enforcement and defense are just a few of the industries which can benefit from Oracle Label Security. In a hosted application, what mechanism separates multiple companies sharing a single instance application? The answer is a sensitivity label. Sensitivity labels provide highly granular row level security capabilities. A sensitivity label can be as simple as a company name, or it can be a complex series of code words added to a document being delivered to the President of the United States or the Chief Executive Officer of a corporation. A sensitivity label can be used to restrict access to patient medical records or to protect an ongoing criminal investigation. Oracle Label Security is designed to address the sophisticated access control requirements found in today's e-business environment. It is the first label based access control product designed specifically for the most popular commercially available operating systems. Oracle Label Security enforcement options allow security policies to be finely tuned for specific industry environments. One of the key advantages Oracle Label Security offers is the fact that the software for row level security is provided out-of-the-box. It allows the developer or administrator to quickly and easily get started with sensitivity labels and highly granular row level security. In addition, Oracle Label Security enforcement options allow security to be tailored to the specific needs of the enterprise. With Oracle Label Security, no development costs are incurred writing the software to enforce row level security. Oracle Label Security can thus dramatically shorten the development timeline, resulting in lower development and maintenance costs. System integrators can bid Oracle Label Security as a commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution in proposals. The evolution of the Internet and rapid consolidation within the computer industry has made flexibility a key factor in IT expenditures. Oracle Label Security is built to meet stringent, real world, operational requirements for row level security found in government and commercial organizations. Oracle Label Security is built for today’s Internet environment and incorporates years of feedback received from Oracle customers in both government and commercial organizations. Oracle Label Security is available on standard, commercially available operating systems, giving IT managers, in government and commercial organizations, hardware flexibility. Oracle Policy Manager is the GUI administration tool for Oracle Label Security. Based on the Oracle Enterprise Manager framework, Oracle Policy Manager can be used to define sensitivity labels, authorize users and protect tables or entire schemes in the Oracle database.

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