Security, Identity, and Compliance
Protect your most valuable data in the cloud and on-premises with Oracle’s security-first approach. Oracle has decades of experience securing data and applications; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers a more secure cloud to our customers, building trust and protecting their most valuable data.
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Learn how Oracle Cloud can help your enterprise protect its infrastructure, apps, and data against cyberattacks, adhere to compliance mandates such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and much more.
See how cloud computing must drive a new model for cybersecurity leadership.
Understand how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can help organizations adopt a zero trust security model.
Our security-first approach
Reduce risk
Strengthen your security posture and reduce risk with security-first design principles that center on providing built-in security controls. These include isolated network virtualization in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and strict separation of duties in Oracle Database.
Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security (PDF)Automated
Automate security to reduce complexity, prevent human error, and lower cost with automated patching for Autonomous Database and threat mitigation for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provided by our CASB Cloud Service and Identity Cloud Service.
Read the IDC technical brief (PDF)Continuous protection
Keep your business protected using always-on encryption and continuous monitoring of user behavior with Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, further mitigating risk with our CASB Cloud Service and Identity Cloud Service.
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Oracle Security
A security-first approach to protect customer workloads
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is designed to protect customer workloads with a security-first approach across compute, network, and storage—down to the hardware. It’s complemented by essential security services to provide the required levels of security for your most business-critical workloads.
Products and features
- Monitoring and mitigation with Cloud Guard, Security Zones, and Vulnerability Scanning
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management
- Key Management
- Web Application Firewall
- Isolated network virtualization
- Root of trust
- Autonomous Linux
- Compliance
- Global footprint with many regions
- Government Cloud
- Bastion
- Certificates
Safeguard your most valuable asset—data
Reduce the risk of a data breach and simplify compliance both on-premises and in the cloud with Autonomous Database and Oracle Database security solutions that include encryption, key management, data masking, privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing.
Products
- Oracle Advanced Security
- Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
- Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting
- Oracle Data Safe
- Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool
- Oracle Database Vault
- Oracle Key Vault
- Oracle Label Security
Extend security and risk mitigation capabilities
Securing critical applications against fraud and misuse is essential for protecting your organization’s business-critical data within Oracle and non-Oracle services. Fine-grained access controls, visibility, and monitoring are critical components of today’s layered defenses.
Products
- Identity Cloud Service
- CASB (cloud access security broker)
- Risk Management Cloud
Secure user access to data and applications
Oracle Identity and Access Management provides scalability with industry-leading capabilities. Reduce operational costs and achieve rapid compliance with regulatory mandates. Secure sensitive applications and data—regardless of whether they’re hosted in the cloud or on-premises.
Products
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management
- Identity Governance
- Access Management
- Directory Services
Strong security practices and principles for built-in protection
Oracle protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data and its systems that are hosted in the cloud, no matter which cloud product is chosen.
Resources
- Corporate security practices
- Oracle Software Security Assurance
- Oracle Cloud security practices
- Compliance and privacy programs
- Global Customer Support
Integrated and managed security services with expertise
When transitioning to cloud or multicloud environments, security teams are challenged by an expanding attack surface, alert overloads, and a cybersecurity skills shortage.
Why choose Advanced Customer Services?
- Proactive threat monitoring
- Improved visibility of vulnerabilities
- Enhanced data security controls
- Unified identity and access management
- Increased efficiency in addressing compliance requirements
Making the internet safer and more secure
Oracle is committed to a safer, more secure internet for our customers so you can confidently move your data and workloads to Oracle Cloud. We do extensive ongoing research and deliver findings such as the annual Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report and global monitoring by the Oracle Internet Intelligence team.
Key topics
- State of internet connectivity and performance
- Industry analysis on security risks and threats
- Real-time alerting and notifications of internet outages
- Leading practices and guidance on risk mitigation
Oracle Security customer successes
Learn how Oracle helps protect its customers’ data with the highest levels of security across infrastructure, applications, and users.
Epsilon protects their customers’ sensitive data with Oracle Advanced Security
Automating Cloud Security with Security Posture Management
Chris Ries, Group Product Manager, OCI Security ProductsOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)'s Cloud Guard is a cloud-native detect-and-respond solution that detects misconfigured resources and insecure activities at scale. Cloud Guard acts as a log and events aggregator that directly integrates with all major Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services (Compute, Networking, Storage, etc.), providing actionable results. Cloud security administrators are provided built-in, embedded expertise for a seamless knowledge transfer experience. Cloud Guard offers the flexibility to take action on security issues manually or automatically with conditional operators.
Resources
Collateral
- IDC Analyst Brief: The Security and Compliance Benefits of IaaS for Financial Services (PDF)
- IDC Analyst Connection: Demystifying Cloud Compliance for Financial Institutions (PDF)
- The Mission of the Cloud-centric CISO (PDF)
- The Rise of the Cloud Security Architect (PDF)
- Securing Oracle Database: A Technical Primer
- Oracle Autonomous Database: The Industry’s First Self-Securing Database (PDF)
- 5 Reasons Why You Need A Cloud-Based Web Application Firewall (PDF)
- 5 Criteria to Assess a Secure Cloud Provider (PDF)
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Develop your database security skills
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Critical patch updates, security alerts, and bulletins
Learn more
- What is cloud security?
- What is data security?
- What is zero trust security?
- What is identity and access management?
- What is GDPR?
- What is WAF (Web application firewall)?
- What is Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)?
- What is Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)?
- What is data sovereignty?
- European Union Restricted Access (EURA) and SaaS Security
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