Oracle Magazine, July/August 2018
The hackers only need to be successful once to break in but your business needs to be successful all of the time in order to avoid a data breach Vipin Samar Senior Vice President Oracle Database Security ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 46 requirements or any other reason they are still vulnerable For many organizations patching is the biggest issue thats what they are struggling with he says With Oracle Database cloud services security patches are automatically applied every quarter or as needed narrowing the window of vulnerability By patching we mean patching the full stack including the firmware the OS clusterware and the database Samar says By applying patches in a rolling fashion across the nodes of a cluster there is no application downtime That lifts a huge burden from database administrators who can then spend more time focusing on other aspects of security and data management Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud services also continually monitor cloud administrator actions for any abnormal activity and predefined policies for database auditing are turned on by default Locking Up the Crown Jewels However security is a shared responsibility Samar says although Oracle automates functions such as encryption and patching organizations are still responsible for business specific security functions such as securing users and ensuring sensitive data is appropriately protected To facilitate those goals Oracle provides a broad range of features and tools designed to help assess and control database security Among them is Oracle Databases free Database Security Assessment Tool DBSAT which analyzes the database and reports findings such as the sensitive data stored users along with roles and privileges and configu
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