Preface

Welcome to Oracle Database Security Guide. This guide describes how you can configure security for Oracle Database by using the default database features.

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Database Security Guide is intended for database administrators (DBAs), security administrators, application developers, and others tasked with performing the following operations securely and efficiently.

It covers these areas:

• Designing and implementing security policies to protect the data of an organization, users, and applications from accidental, inappropriate, or unauthorized actions

• Creating and enforcing policies and practices of auditing and accountability for inappropriate or unauthorized actions

• Creating, maintaining, and terminating user accounts, passwords, roles, and privileges

• Developing applications that provide desired services securely in a variety of computational models, leveraging database and directory services to maximize both efficiency and ease of use

To use this document, you need a basic understanding of how and why a database is used, and basic familiarity with SQL.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle’s commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customer access to and use of Oracle support services will be pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in their Oracle order for the applicable services.

Related Documents

For more security-related information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Advanced Security Guide

• Oracle Database Vault Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle Label Security Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle Key Vault documentation library

• Audit Vault and Database Firewall documentation library

• Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting documentation library

• Oracle Data Safe documentation library

• Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Net Services Reference

• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Multitenant Administrator’s Guide

Many of the examples in this guide use the sample schemas of the seed PDB, which you can create when you install Oracle Database. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

Oracle Technical Services

To download the product data sheet, frequently asked questions, links to the latest product documentation, product download, and other collateral, visit Oracle Technical Resources (formerly Oracle Technology Network). You must register online before using Oracle Technical Services. Registration is free and can be done at

https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/

My Oracle Support

You can find information about security patches, certifications, and the support knowledge base by visiting My Oracle Support (formerly OracleMetaLink) at https://support.oracle.com

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.