Oracle Database Security Central System Features

Learn about the system features of Oracle Database Security Central.

About Oracle Database Security Central

Oracle Database Security Central (Oracle DBSecCentral) protects your IT infrastructure by monitoring activity, blocking intrusion attempts, collecting audit data, enacting customizable firewall rules, and assessing Oracle database configuration.

Oracle DBSecCentral secures databases and other critical components of your IT infrastructure, such as operating systems, in the following ways:

• Provides a database firewall that monitors activity and can block SQL statements on the network based on your firewall policy.

• Collects audit data and presents the data in audit reports.

• Enables you to proactively configure alerts and notifications.

This section provides a brief overview of the administrative and auditing features of Oracle DBSecCentral.

Oracle DBSecCentral auditing features are described in detail in Oracle Database Security Central Auditor’s Guide.

We strongly recommend that you read Oracle Database Security Central Concepts Guide for more information on the features, components, users, and deployment of Oracle DBSecCentral.

Security Technical Implementation Guides for Oracle Database Security Central

Oracle Database Security Central (Oracle DBSecCentral) is compliant with the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) standards.

To learn about Oracle DBSecCentral compliance with STIG standards, see the Security Technical Implementation Guides.

System Requirements for Oracle Database Security Central

Read about the Oracle DBSecCentral hardware and software requirements.

For hardware and software requirements, see Oracle Database Security Central Installation Guide.

Supported Targets for Oracle Database Security Central

Learn about Oracle Database Security Central targets.

A target is a database or non-database product that you secure using either the Audit Vault Agent, the Database Firewall, or both. If the target, whether or not it is a database, is supported by the Audit Vault Agent, then you can deploy the Agent on that target’s host computer and collect audit data from the internal audit tables and operating system audit files. If the target is a database, then you can monitor or block its incoming SQL traffic with Database Firewall.

Oracle Database Security Central supports various target products out of the box in the form of built-in plug-ins.

See Also:

• About Plug-ins

• Plug-In Reference for detailed information on each plug-in.

• Table C-1 for supported target products and versions.

• Table C-19 for the data collected and platforms supported for each audit trail type.

• Configuring Quick JSON Target Type to Collect Audit Data from MongoDB

• Oracle Database Security Central Developer’s Guide for information on creating custom plug-ins to capture audit trails from more target types using the Oracle DBSecCentral SDK.

Oracle Database Security Central Administrative Features

You can use Oracle Database Security Central administrative features to manage targets and their hosts, firewalls, and other features.

You can use Oracle Database Security Central administrative features to configure and manage the following:

• Targets

• Database Firewalls

• High Availability

• Third party integrations

• Audit Vault Agent deployment

• Audit trail collection

• Audit data lifecycle, archiving, and purging

• Microsoft Active Directory or OpenLDAP

Oracle Database Security Central Auditing Features

Learn about Oracle Database Security Central auditing features.

Oracle Database Security Central auditing features enable you to configure and manage the following:

• Firewall policies

• Audit policies for Oracle Database

• SQL Firewall policies for Oracle Database

• Database Vault policies for Oracle Database

• Reports and report schedules

• Entitlement auditing for Oracle Database

• Sensitive Data Discovery

• Stored procedure auditing

• Alerts and e-mail notifications

• Security assessment and drift management

See Also: Oracle Database Security Central Auditor’s Guide for detailed information about these auditing features

Integrating Oracle Database Security Central with Oracle Key Vault

You can integrate Oracle Database Security Central with Oracle Key Vault.

Oracle Key Vault events are collected by Oracle Database Security Central.

See Oracle Key Vault Administrator’s Guide for instructions about integrating Oracle Key Vault with Oracle Database Security Central.