1 Introduction

This document includes the following:

Audience

The Oracle Utilities Cloud Services Security Guide is intended for Oracle Utilities Cloud Services administrators, security administrators, application developers, and others tasked with performing the following operations securely and efficiently for the cloud service:

  • 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.
  • Developing interfaces that provide desired services securely in a variety of computational models, leveraging Oracle Utilities Cloud Services and directory services to maximize both efficiency and ease of use.

To use this document, you need to a basic understanding of how the Oracle Utilities Cloud Services works, and basic familiarity with the security aspects of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Critical Patches

As part of the service, all security patches identified by Oracle will be automatically applied to your Oracle Utilities Cloud Services.