Oracle 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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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 Access Management.
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 Access Management.
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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, Vulnerability Scanning, and Cloud Guard Threat Detector
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management
- Network Firewall
- Key Management
- Web Application Firewall
- Threat Intelligence
- Bastion
- Certificates
- Isolated network virtualization
- Root of trust
- Autonomous Linux
- Compliance
- Global footprint with many regions
- Government Cloud
Safeguard your most valuable asset—data
Reduce the risk of a data breach and simplify compliance both on-premises and in the cloud with Oracle Database security products that include encryption, key management, data masking, privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing.
Products
- Data Safe
One console to monitor users, data, and security configuration - Database Vault
Controls on privileged users and database operations - Advanced Security
Transparent data encryption (TDE) and data redaction - Key Vault
TDE keys and secrets (passwords, PKI, SSH) management - Audit Vault and Database Firewall
Auditing, activity monitoring, and security posture management - Data Masking and Subsetting
Sensitive data discovery, masking, and subsetting - Label Security
Label-based, row-level access control - Database Security Assessment Tool
Identifying misconfigurations and excessive user privileges
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.
- Database Security Assessment Tool:
Identify misconfigurations and excessive user privileges - Advanced Security:
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Data Redaction - Key Vault:
TDE Keys and Secrets (Passwords, PKI, SSH) Management - Audit Vault and Database Firewall:
Auditing, Activity Monitoring and Security Posture Management - Data Safe:
Unified data security console for Oracle databases - Database Vault:
Privileged user control and database control - Data Masking and Subsetting:
Sensitive Data discovery, masking and subsetting - Label Security:
Label-based row-level access-control
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, plus visibility and monitoring for security violations and threats, are crucial application security components of today’s layered defenses.
Products
- OCI Web Application Firewall for Oracle Fusion Applications
- OCI Identity and Access Management
- Oracle 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 Customer Success Services
- Proactive threat monitoring
- Improved visibility of vulnerabilities
- Enhanced data security controls
- Unified identity and access management
- Increased efficiency in addressing compliance requirements
Address the challenges of an increasingly complex regulatory environment
Oracle recommends that cloud customers formally analyze their cloud strategy to determine the suitability of using the applicable Oracle cloud services in light of their own legal and regulatory compliance obligations. Oracle provides information about frameworks for which an Oracle line of business has achieved a third-party attestation or certification for one or more of its services in the form of attestations.
Oracle Security customer successes
Learn how Oracle helps protect its customers’ data with the highest levels of security across infrastructure, applications, and users.
AI-Powered Automation with Oracle Access Governance
Pavana Jain, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle
Kamal Narayan, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle
Oracle Access Governance expedites application onboarding with AI access bundle creation, mining, and recommendations. This automation simplifies entitlement management, uncovers optimal access patterns, and uses generative AI to assign meaningful descriptors for access bundles. By reducing manual input, it enables a faster and more secure access control model by keeping the permission catalog concise.
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