1.1 Survivability of Mission-Critical Workloads

Oracle Exadata Database Machine can prevent or minimize the damage caused from accidental and malicious actions taken by internal users or external parties.

As part of the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices, survivability is increased by the following:

• Ensuring that the components used have been designed, engineered, and tested to work well together in support of secure deployment architectures. Oracle Exadata Database Machine supports secure isolation, access control, cryptographic services, monitoring and auditing, quality of service, and secure management.

• Reducing the default attack surface of its constituent products to help minimize the overall exposure of the machine. Organizations can customize the security settings of Oracle Exadata Database Machine based upon the organization's policies and needs.

• Protecting the machine, including its operational and management interfaces, using a complement of open and vetted protocols, and APIs capable of supporting traditional security goals of strong authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Verifying that software and hardware contain features that keep the service available even when failures occur. These capabilities help in cases where attackers attempt to disable one or more individual components in the system.