Oracle Audit Vault is a specialized database server that consolidates and secures the audit data across the enterprise. Oracle Audit Vault is a product that enables collection, monitoring, storage, verification and reporting of audit data from various systems such as databases, application servers, applications, and operating systems.

Businesses have a great variety of systems, databases, and applications that produce vast quantities of audit log data. Auditors must analyze these audit log data in a timely fashion across these typically disparate components. To facilitate this process there is a need to centralize the management of audit data through consolidation of audit information across all systems into a single audit warehouse that is secure, scalable, reliable, and highly available.

Oracle Audit Vault provides a solution to help customers address the most difficult security problems remaining today, protecting against the insider threat and meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

Oracle Audit Vault solves some of the most common security and audit problems that exist today.

• Audit information resides in silos across the enterprise
• Audit information needs strong protection
• Inability to audit data associated with powerful and privileged users

Oracle Audit Vault will help businesses secure sensitive audit data, protect corporate reputation and meet regulatory compliance guidelines. Compliance regulations and legislation such has the US Healthcare Interoperability Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Japan Privacy Law, US California Senate Bill 1386, and the EU Privacy Directive requires that businesses be accountable and take responsibility for their business data and personal data related to customers and employees, demands assessments of auditing systems, and monitoring of all business activity.