Compare With Baseline

When an assessment indicates that the level of potential risk from user accounts on a target database is low, consider setting that assessment as the baseline. You can then compare the Latest Assessment of the same target database against the baseline.

For example, suppose that for one target database you have schedule assessments on a monthly cycle and the assessment run on March 1 reveals a number of potential user risks. You address the most significant ones during that month and then find that April 1 assessment looks much cleaner, giving you confidence that the security posture is now strong. You may then want to set the April 1 assessment as the baseline. If a baseline is set, then for each scheduled assessment, Oracle Data Safe automatically reports new potential risks as deviations from the baseline (security drift).

However, you do not have to wait for the next scheduled assessment to get comparison data. Once you have set a baseline you can manually run Compare With Baseline to check the Latest Assessment for any security drift from the baseline.