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Audit Vault and Database Firewall

Protect sensitive data and streamline compliance across your database fleet. Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall monitors database activity, blocks SQL injection attacks, and automates compliance reporting for Oracle and non-Oracle databases in the cloud or on-premises.

In the age of AI agents and automated systems accessing your databases, comprehensive audit trails aren't optional. They're essential.


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Why Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall

  • Comprehensive audit data collection

    Consolidates audit data from a wide range of sources, including Oracle and non-Oracle databases, operating systems, directories, and application-specific audit data. This extensive coverage provides a holistic view of database activities, enhancing security monitoring and compliance reporting.


  • Integrated database security posture management (DSPM)

    Provides a centralized, fleet-wide security assessment solution for Oracle Databases, offering comprehensive visibility into security configurations, user entitlements, and sensitive data locations, enabling organizations to define security baselines and monitor deviations effectively.


  • Native integration with Oracle ecosystem

    Seamlessly integrates with Oracle Databases and related technologies, ensuring optimal performance and compatibility. This native integration simplifies deployment and management for organizations already using Oracle solutions.


  • Advanced SQL traffic monitoring and blocking

    Multi-stage Database Firewall inspects SQL traffic to detect and optionally block unauthorized SQL statements, including SQL injection attacks. Its powerful policy engine enforces trusted path access, profiles application behavior, and blocks deviations to safeguard against unauthorized data access.


Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall features

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance database security, ensure compliance, and streamline operational management. By integrating advanced monitoring, auditing, and preventive capabilities, AVDF provides organizations with the tools necessary to safeguard their data assets effectively.


Comprehensive Activity Auditing

Audits and monitors activities across databases, network-based SQL traffic, operating systems, Active Directory, REST, JSON, XML, CSV, and custom tables. It detects data exfiltration attempts and tracks before-and-after values for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Multi-Stage Database Firewall

Multi-stage database firewall inspects SQL traffic to detect and optionally block unauthorized SQL statements, including SQL injection attacks. Its policy engine enforces trusted path access, profiles application behavior, and blocks deviations to safeguard against unauthorized data access.

Comprehensive Security Assessments

Offers a fleet-wide, simplified view of database security assessments, highlighting security findings and associated risks. It enables the definition of security baselines and continuous monitoring for deviations.

Sensitive Data Discovery

Identifies unmonitored databases for registration and monitoring. It discovers types and locations of sensitive data, facilitating informed activity monitoring and policy definition.

User Entitlement Management

Provides entitlement management to monitor individual user privileges and their drift. It also identifies changes to stored procedures, ensuring PL/SQL code integrity.

Centralized Audit Policy Management

Centrally manages Oracle Unified Auditing and ensures compliance with STIG and CIS audit policies.

Interactive Reporting and Alerts

Delivers interactive, filter-rich reports and real-time, policy-based alerts. Its open, documented audit repository can be queried via standard SQL, enabling you to use your preferred BI/SIEM tools for deeper analysis.


Simplified Operational Management

Offers centralized management with embedded security, a scalable architecture supporting high availability and disaster recovery, streamlined data retention, SIEM/Syslog integration, FIPS 140-2 mode support, agentless audit collection, command-line automation, and minimal downtime during updates.

Forensic Analysis and Compliance Reporting

Provides ready-to-use reports tailored for regulations like EU GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOX, aiding compliance audits with detailed insights into user activities and security events.

Customer Highlight

Cummins in India uses Oracle Database Security to help meet regulatory compliance obligations under India’s MCA Rule 11g

"Audit Vault and Database Firewall has enabled us to meet audit trail compliance requirements set by MCA guidelines via Companies Act, 2013, as detailed in the ICAI Guidance Note. AVDF solution with GoldenGate was finalized for implementation based on the recommendation in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: India - Audit Trail Requirements Mandated by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (Doc ID 2765751.1)."

—Jeevan V Pandit, India Region IT Lead, Oracle Finance & Oracle BI, Cummins

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LiveLabs Workshop: Audit Vault and Database Firewall

Try AVDF hands-on in a risk-free sandbox environment. In this 1-hour workshop, you'll configure database activity monitoring, set up SQL injection blocking rules, and generate compliance reports. No installation required. Perfect for security teams evaluating AVDF or getting up to speed quickly.

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Nazia Zaidi, Sr. Principal Product Manager, Audit Vault and Database Firewall, Database Security, Oracle

If you are currently running AVDF 20.15 or earlier versions, we recommend updating to AVDF 20.16 to help enhance the security and stability of your deployment. Reflecting on 5 Years of Evolution - As the security landscape evolved, AVDF 20 evolved to address major shifts such as...

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