by Robert Buda | Nov 25, 2014 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Oracle DBA
Regulatory compliance issues are top-of-mind for today’s senior executives. New laws and industry regulations are changing how organizations acquire, store, manage, retain and dispose of data. Every Oracle DBA should be aware of these changes because of their sweeping...
by Robert Buda | Nov 15, 2011 | Database Security
Enforcing Least Privilege To Enhance Database Security The principle of least privilege refers to the practice of ensuring that each individual has only the privilege and access that is necessary to perform their job function. In most IT shops that run an Oracle...
by Robert Buda | Aug 26, 2011 | Best Practices, Cloud, Database Security
As the number of databases moving to public, private and hybrid cloud computing infrastructure increases, security concerns are a significant and growing problem. Organizations will do well to scrutinize the security practices of cloud providers and other third...
by Robert Buda | Jun 9, 2011 | Best Practices, Database, Database Security
It has been a relatively short time since I wrote my last post on database security but so many breaches have occurred since then that it seems like much longer. In just the past few months, Sony’s gaming system was shut down for two weeks, a nuclear facility in...
by Robert Buda | Mar 17, 2011 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle
When attempting to make their Oracle database as secure as possible, many organizations turn on Oracle’s auditing feature. Oracle has a very robust auditing feature that enables us to log every action taken in the database. We can audit connections, object...
