About This Guide
The Security Shield User's Guide explains how to manage security for the call traffic traversing your Oracle Session Border Controller with the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield). This guide provides network diagrams and instructions for setting the controls and actions that you can apply to the call traffic, as well as information about activity logs.
Security Shield Operations Documented in this Guide
- Viewing and working with the Dashboard
- Creating and managing access control lists
- Viewing and working with activity logs
- Configuring General Threat Protection, Threat Vector Thresholds, Domain Thresholds, Call Type Classifications, and Reputation Score Classifications
- Viewing analytics data
Documentation Set
The following table describes the documents included in the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield) documentation set.
| Security Shield Installation and Maintenance Guide | Contains conceptual and procedural information for installing and maintaining the Security Shield. |
| Security Shield License Document | Contains information about the Security Shield license. |
| Security Shield Security and Privacy Guide | Contains conceptual and procedural information for securing the Security Shield operations. |
| Security Shield User's Guide | Contains the product overview along with conceptual and procedural information about using the Security Shield Dashboard. |
| Security Shield What's New | Contains information about this release, including platform support, new features, caveats, known issues, and limitations. |
Related Documentation
The following list describes related documentation for the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield). You can find the listed documents on http://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/communications/ in the "Session Border Controller Documentation" section.
| ACLI Configuration Guide | Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller. |
| ACLI Reference Guide | Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters. |
| Call Traffic Monitoring Guide | Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes Web GUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application. |
| Installation and Platform Preparation Guide | Contains conceptual and procedural information for system provisioning, software installations, and upgrades. |
| Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide | Contains information about Oracle Communications Session Border Controller logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives. |
History
The following table provides the revision history for this document. Oracle updates the whole documentation set with each software release. When one or more of the documents requires an update between software releases, Oracle issues an interim update limited to the affected documents.
| Dates | Release Numbers and Revisions |
|---|---|
| June 2020 | 20.0.0.0.0 |
| July 2020 | 20.1.0.0.0 |
| October 2020 | 20.2.0.0.0 |
| February 2021 | 20.3.0.0.0 |
| June 2021 | 21.0.0.0.0 |
| August 2021 | 21.1.0.0.0 |
| November 2021 | 21.2.0.0.0 |
| November 2021 | 21.2.0.0.0 |
| February 2022 | 21.3.0.0.0 |
| May 2022 | 22.0.0.0.0 |
| August 2022 | 22.1.0.0.0 |
| November 2022 | 22.2.0.0.0 |
| February 2023 | 23.0.0.0.0 |
| May 2023 | 23.1.0.0.0 |
| August 2023 | 23.2.0.0.0 |
| November 2023 | 23.3.0.0.0 |
| January 2024 | 23.3.1.0.0
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| February 2024 | 24.0.0.0.0 |
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