Database security for the AI era
AI moves fast. Security must start and end at the data.
The threat to data has never been greater, and AI is accelerating how enterprise data is accessed, used, and attacked. Oracle Database Security help reduce the risk of data breaches and simplify compliance by enforcing controls at the data layer, helping teams assess exposure, monitor activity, and maintain resilience across mission-critical database environments.
NEW: Identify exposure before AI expands access
For a limited time, Oracle is offering select tools to help teams assess exposure, monitor database activity, manage policies, and support patching and upgrades.
Questions security leaders need to answer now
What sensitive data can AI agents, apps, and users actually reach?
Assess database security posture across complex configurations, user privileges, and sensitive-data exposure to identify misconfigurations, risky access paths, and overprivileged users before AI expands access or accelerates exploitation.
Can we protect sensitive data across every environment?
Protect data at rest, in motion, and in nonproduction environments with encryption, key management, and masking controls that help make exposed data unreadable, reduce breach impact, and support compliance requirements.
Can we control access for privileged users and AI-driven workflows?
Restrict unauthorized access, enforce separation of duties, and apply context-sensitive policies to help prevent privileged users or compromised accounts from reaching sensitive data outside approved business processes
Can we monitor unusual access and prove what happened?
Monitor database activity, SQL behavior, user behavior, and sensitive-data access to detect inappropriate activity quickly, support investigations, and maintain defensible audit evidence across critical databases.
Explore Oracle AI Database security
Oracle Deep Data Security
Help secure AI access to enterprise data with identity- and context-aware controls across applications, agents, APIs, analytics, and RAG workflows.
Oracle Data Safe
Use a cloud service to assess and monitor database security posture for eligible Oracle databases. Detect configuration and user drift, discover and mask sensitive data, collect auditdata, and reduce risk with SQL Firewall.
Oracle Database Security Central
Use an on-premises console to centralize database security assessment, policy management, and monitoring. Prioritize user risk, sensitive-data exposure, configuration posture, audits, data access, and firewall policies.
Oracle Advanced Security
Protect sensitive data at rest and during database queries. Use Transparent Data Encryption and Data Redaction to encrypt data and dynamically mask sensitive values with minimal application impact.
Oracle Key Vault
Centralize encryption key and secrets management for Oracle databases. Manage TDE master keys, Oracle wallets, passwords, SSH keys, and other secrets across on-premises, Oracle Cloud, and supported third-party cloud environments.
Oracle Database Vault
Reduce risk of unauthorized access to sensitive data, even by privileged users. Enforce separation of duties, control powerful database commands, and use SQL Firewall to help block anomalous SQL activity.
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting
Protect nonproduction environments by replacing sensitive production data with masked nonproduction data. Create smaller database subsets to reduce storage and limit exposure in test and development.
Oracle Label Security
Enforce classification-based access controls for sensitive data. Use mandatory policies based on data classification and user access classification to support fine-grained accessrequirements.
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall: Monitor database activity, audit access to sensitive data, detect policy violations, and support investigation and compliance reporting across enterprise database environments.
Key security features, including supported authentication and authorization methods, network encryption, privilege analysis, Deep Data Security, unified auditing, Oracle Virtual Private Database, and more, to meet your unique needs.
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AI Has Changed the Threat Landscape. Security Must Start with Data.
Vipin Samar, Senior Vice President, Database Security, OracleAI is transforming how organizations operate. AI agents can deliver exceptional customer experiences, automate workflows, reduce costs, and unlock new business opportunities faster than ever before. But AI is also changing the security landscape in fundamental ways. AI systems are creating new paths to sensitive enterprise data. AI agents can query, analyze, and act on information at unprecedented scale. AI-generated applications can introduce unintended access paths and security gaps. At the same time, attackers are using AI to discover vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and automate attacks faster than ever before. To help customers address these challenges, Oracle is making several of its most widely deployed database security, patching, testing, and lifecycle management tools available at no cost for a limited time, or at a 90% discount on one-year term licenses. These tools help organizations strengthen database security, accelerate patch adoption, reduce downtime, and improve resilience across cloud, multicloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
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Regulatory compliance
- Accelerate Your Response to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (PDF)
- India Privacy Act DPDPA, AI Threats, and Quantum Risks All Converge at the Database (Blog)
- Addressing India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) with Oracle AI Database 26ai (PDF)
- Oracle AI Database and the Reserve Bank of India Security Guidelines (PDF)
- Risk-Driven Database Security (PDF)
- Securing the Oracle AI Database ebook (PDF)
Trusted and secure AI
- Announcement blog: Introducing Oracle Deep Data Security (HTML)
- Oracle AI Database 26ai Deep Data Security (HTML)
- Press release: Oracle unveils AI database agentic innovations (HTML)
- Blog: Oracle AI Database and mission-critical agentic AI (HTML)
- KuppingerCole: Why Oracle’s Data-Centric Security Matters for Agentic AI (HTML)
- Securing the Oracle AI Database ebook (PDF)
Cyber resiliency
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AskTOM Office Hours offers free, open Q&A sessions with the database security product management team. Office Hours helps you fully leverage the multitude of enterprise-strength database security tools available to your organization.
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