Oracle Security 
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| Written by Amit Poddar | |
| Wednesday, 18 January 2006 | |
Protecting Sensitive Data Effectively I've been a Oracle DBA since 1999 and never have I seen so much importance given to securing the data from unauthorized access. This most probably is because of everything being done online, hence resulting into storing more and more sensitive data into the database. Data like SSN, credit card numbers etc. Just imagine if someone hacks into amazon.com database and steals all the credit card numbers, scary thought? To avoid this many system architechts design the system with strong perimeter protection, i.e. firewalls and proper authentication and authorization schemes. Some designers has started using Oracle's Virtual Private Database to protect their data from unauthorized access. However imagine a case where somebody steals the entire server, just the disks or just the backup tapes and opens the database on someother machine and steals the data. Or imagine a DBA who has legitimate access to the data, downloads sensitive data which he/she is not supposed to access. In these situations encryption of data is very important. In these series of articles I will look at efficient usage of encryption and FGAC for proper authorization schemes. |
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 January 2006 ) |
