Database Security Solutions
The threat to data has never been greater. Oracle Database helps reduce the risk of a data breach and simplifies regulatory compliance with security solutions for encryption and key management, granular access controls, flexible data masking, comprehensive activity monitoring, and sophisticated auditing capabilities.
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Why database security is critical
Mitigate risks from misconfigured databases
Databases are complex systems with hundreds of parameters, profile options, and configuration directives—an almost infinite combination of settings. A misconfigured database increases the risk of an exploit that gains unauthorized access. Oracle security solutions assess risks from security configurations and users and identify areas where those risks can be mitigated or eliminated.
Render stolen data useless
Hackers can steal clear-text database data directly from the database, storage, exports, or backups. Most data privacy regulations require or encourage masking or encryption of data at-rest and in-motion. Oracle Database offers comprehensive encryption, key management, and masking capabilities that scale to enterprise-level workloads.
Restrict unauthorized access by privileged users
Privileged users manage databases, but should all of them be able to access sensitive data? Reduce data breach risk from hackers or misuse of insider trust. Enforce separation of duties and prevent data theft, even from accounts with compromised passwords. Use context-sensitive security policies to control sensitive database options.
Monitor access and demonstrate compliance
A breach can be blocked or mitigated if inappropriate access attempts are detected quickly. Audit database activities and monitor SQL queries in real-time. Use built-in and customized reports to address compliance requirements.
Oracle Database security products
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Oracle Data Safe
A cloud service offering database security posture management for all your Oracle Databases—on-premises or in the cloud. Assess security, detect configuration and user drift, find and mask sensitive data, and collect audit data for analysis, alerting, and reporting.
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Oracle Advanced Security
Encrypts data at rest (transparent data encryption) with encryption built into the database kernel that protects against database bypass attacks with minimal operational or performance impact. Dynamically masks data during database queries (data redaction).
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Oracle Key Vault
Encryption key management and secrets management, including passwords, SSH keys, Oracle Wallets, and much more. Oracle Key Vault is the only tested and certified key management solution for Oracle Database, and is available on-premises, in Oracle Cloud, and in most third-party clouds.
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Oracle Database Vault
Protects data from unauthorized access, even by privileged users. Locks down database commands based on factors such as time of day, program used, presence of an approved change ticket number—almost anything that can be checked programmatically. With the new Oracle Database 23ai, SQL Firewall can block SQL injection attacks and log all deviations from policy.
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Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
Database security posture management for all your Oracle Databases—on-premises or in the cloud. Assess security, detect configuration and user drift, and find sensitive data. Database activity monitoring for most enterprise-class databases and other IT systems.
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Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting
Scans your database for sensitive data and masks that data in nonproduction systems to remove security risks from test and development databases. Creates “subsets” of a database that minimize storage costs.
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Oracle Label SecurityControl access to data using a mandatory access policy framework based on data classification and access classification assigned to a database user. Trusted by defense and national security organizations and used commercially to help satisfy fine-grained access control requirements.
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Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool
A stand-alone tool that evaluates your database’s current security state and makes recommendations on how to mitigate identified risks. The assessment tool is lightweight, easy to use, and quickly provides a view into your configuration, users, and sensitive data.
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Oracle Database security customer successes
Oracle Database security customers leverage a wide range of solutions to protect sensitive data from internal and external threats and to simplify and accelerate compliance efforts.
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Unlike providers that leave gaps and require you to piece together disparate security technologies, Oracle offers a defense-in-depth strategy with a suite of best-in-class, integrated security components that aims to support you in seamlessly protecting your data everywhere.
Resources
Introduction to Oracle Database security
Familiarize yourself with Oracle Database’s rich set of security features and options to manage user accounts, authentication, privileges, application security, encrypting data at rest and in motion, auditing, and more.
Oracle Database security documentation
Explore Oracle’s robust documentation for database security to understand functionality, improve your own skills, and troubleshoot issues. Dedicated sections include access management, application security, data encryption and redaction, and more.
AskTOM database security Office Hours
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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Try Data Safe at no cost
Oracle Cloud trial accounts include the ability to register one on-premises (or third-party cloud) database with Data Safe at no cost. Learn what Data Safe can do to simplify the work of securing your database.
Run the Database Security Assessment Tool
Quickly assess database security posture and get recommendations to mitigate risks.
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