Preface

Welcome to Oracle Key Vault Root of Trust HSM Configuration Guide (formerly Oracle Key Vault Integration with Hardware Security Module). This guide explains how to integrate a hardware security module (HSM) with Oracle Key Vault.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

Oracle Key Vault is meant for users who are responsible for deploying, maintaining, and managing security within the enterprise. These users can be database, system, or security administrators. This guide can be used by any information security personnel who is responsible for protecting enterprise data residing in database servers, application servers, operating systems, and other information systems.

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Security Guide
• Oracle Database Advanced Security Guide
• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide
• Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration
• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle GoldenGate

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https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/security/key-vault.html

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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