Oracle Database Online Documentation 11g Release 1 (11.1)

A database administration quick start guide that teaches you how to perform day-to-day database security tasks. The goal of this book is to help you understand the concepts behind Oracle database security. This book teaches you how to perform all common security tasks needed to secure your database. The knowledge you gain from completing the tasks in Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide helps you not only to better secure your data, but to meet common regulatory compliance requirements, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Provides a comprehensive overview of security for this database release, featuring security as a necessary, primary focus for Oracle installations. It provides the conceptual framework for understanding security requirements and threats as well as introducing the features, techniques, and policies for meeting those needs with Oracle products. The audience for this book includes system managers as well as users, database administrators, and application developers. This version addresses bug 7579601 and additional fixes throughout. It also includes additional material and tutorials for Chapter 9, "Verifying Security Access with Auditing."

Provides an overview and detailed configuration information about database advanced security features. These features include network encryption, strong authentication (RADIUS, Kerberos, and SSL), and centralized user management that uses the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure (Enterprise User Security). The audience for this guide includes network security and enterprise user security administrators.

Describes how to implement, configure, and administer Oracle Database users in Oracle Internet Directory, the directory service provided by the Oracle Identity Management platform.

Describes how to use Oracle Label Security to protect sensitive data. It explains the basic concepts behind label-based security and provides examples to show how it is used.

Explains how to plan, configure, and manage enterprise-wide connectivity with Oracle Net Services.

Contains a complete listing and description of the control utility commands and configuration file parameters available for managing components of Oracle Net Services.

This is the 11.2.0.3 draft version of the guide.

Describes how to configure Oracle Database Vault security for Oracle Database Release 11.1.0.7. Oracle Database Vault provides fine-grained control over administrative access to an Oracle database.