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Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook Secure your Oracle Database 12c with this valuable Oracle support resource, featuring more than 100 solutions to the challenges of protecting your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172123
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zoran Pavlovic Zoran Pavlovic
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Maja Veselica Maja Veselica
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Maja Veselica & Zoran Pavlovic Maja Veselica & Zoran Pavlovic
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Basic Database Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Security Considerations in Multitenant Environment 3. PL/SQL Security 4. Virtual Private Database 5. Data Redaction 6. Transparent Sensitive Data Protection 7. Privilege Analysis 8. Transparent Data Encryption 9. Database Vault 10. Unified Auditing 11. Additional Topics 12. Appendix – Application Contexts

Introduction


Oracle Data Redaction is a new security feature, introduced in Oracle Database 12c. From a licensing viewpoint, it is part of the Advanced Security Option (only available as an option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition). However, afterwards, Oracle decided to make it available in Oracle Database 11g as well (only in version 11.2.0.4). The main idea behind this feature is to mask (hide/redact) some (sensitive) data from end-users. Having this in mind, it is logical that you will primarily use this security solution in a production environment.

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Oracle Data Redaction and Oracle Data Masking are both used to mask sensitive data, but these solutions are completely different—from the way they are designed (how they work) to their target implementation use cases. Oracle Data Masking enables organizations to use production data in development and test environments by changing production data with realistic data (transformation is done by using masking rules).

Oracle Data Redaction...

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