Data Safe

Data Safe is a tool provided by OCI for analyzing the database to ensure its security. With data breaches growing every day, along with an evolving set of data protection and privacy regulations, protecting business sensitivity and regulated data became mission-critical. The Data Safe tool analyzes databases, whether on-premises or cloud databases (Database Cloud Service or Autonomous Database or databases on a bare metal server, compute, or Cloud@Customer), in terms of their configuration, operation, and implementation and then recommends changes and controls to mitigate any risks.

Data Safe identifies configuration settings that may increase risk exposure and also identifies sensitive user accounts, their entitlements, and security policies. An autonomous database also can be analyzed by Data Safe.

First, the database needs to be registered with Data Safe. To register the databases, they should be accessible to OCI. This applies whether it is on-premises or on the...