Audience

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

• 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.