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Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance: Security Alerts and Updates

jcoreil June 19, 2023 0 Comments

Ensuring the security of your data is of utmost importance to your business.

Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance is a comprehensive and robust security solution. It offers a wide range of tools and features to protect your data from potential security threats.

One of the most crucial aspects of this solution is the continuous innovation in staying ahead of emerging security risks.

With Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance, you can receive alerts and updates. These will help you stay informed and take immediate action if an issue arises. All the while, ensuring that your organization’s data remains secure.

What are the Risks?

A multitude of enterprise organizations utilizes Oracle Databases as a trusted platform for housing their most sensitive data.

However, with this great privilege comes a great responsibility to protect against any security threats that may arise from:

  • Unauthorized access: This is the most common type of database security risk. It occurs when users have weak or easily guessed passwords, when security holes in the database software exist, or when users give up their credentials as a result of phishing/scamming.
  • Data corruption: This can happen due to software bugs, hardware failures, or human error. Corrupted data can make it difficult or impossible to access or use the data in the database.
  • Data leakage: This occurs when sensitive data is accidentally or intentionally disclosed to unauthorized individuals. Data leakage can happen through a variety of channels, such as email, file sharing, or cloud storage.
  • Denial-of-service attacks: These attacks attempt to make the database unavailable to authorized users. Denial-of-service attacks when attackers flood the database with requests or by exploiting vulnerabilities in the database software.
  • Man-in-the-middle attacks: These attacks occur when an attacker intercepts communications between a user and the database. Man-in-the-middle attacks attempt to steal passwords, modify data, or inject malicious code into the database.

Additional Oracle Risks

Here are some additional security risks that are specific to the Oracle database environment:

  • Privileged user abuse: Privileged users have extensive access to the database, which makes them a prime target for attackers. Privileged user abuse can occur when a privileged user’s account is compromised or when a privileged user intentionally misuses their privileges.
  • Configuration errors: Oracle databases can be configured in a variety of ways, and some configurations are more secure than others. Configuration errors can introduce security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers.
  • Weak passwords: Weak passwords are a common security weakness in Oracle databases. Weak passwords can be easily guessed or cracked, which can give attackers access to the database.

These risks can be mitigated with the implementation of:

  • a depth security platform
  • access management
  • granular access controls
  • continuous innovation

Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance provides enterprise-strength database security tools such as Security Alerts and Critical Patch Updates, which help safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.

These alerts help to identify and address potential vulnerabilities, enforcing essential security compliance requirements.

Critical Patch Updates (CPUs)

Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance is a critical aspect of database security. One of the vital features of Oracle’s security system is its Critical Patch Updates (CPUs).

CPUs are quarterly security updates from Oracle that help detect and prevent security threats. In today’s digital age, the threat of cyber-attacks and data breaches has become more common.

Thus, it is crucial to stay up-to-date with the latest security patches to protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access.

These patches are essential in keeping systems and data safe, reducing the severity of the breach, and keeping businesses secure.

Being proactive with security monitoring and early detection can prevent data loss and minimize disruption to business operations.

Understanding the Value of Proactive Security Monitoring & Alerting

Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance is a powerful suite of enterprise-strength database security tools designed to meet the most stringent regulatory compliance requirements.

Among the many security capabilities that Oracle offers, proactive security monitoring and alerting is one of the most valuable.

This feature allows administrators to be notified of any security threats or suspicious activities in real time, enabling them to respond quickly and reduce the severity of breaches.

Early detection is critical in preventing data breaches and safeguarding sensitive information. In addition to security alerts and updates, Oracle Enhanced Security provides database auditing and intelligent, automated security, including granular access controls, tablespace encryption, and transparent data encryption.

These features ensure that all aspects of the database layer are secured, from individual data columns to entire tablespaces.

With Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance, businesses can rest assured that they are protected from unauthorized access and comply with the latest protection regulations.

At Adjacent Solutions, we understand the importance of proactive security monitoring and alerting in Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance.

Our team of experts has hands-on experience implementing and maintaining advanced security solutions, including Oracle database security.

We offer a depth security platform that includes hardware security modules and additional cloud security solutions to protect businesses from security risks and unauthorized data exposure.

We also help businesses with the separation of duties and compliance requirements to continuously innovate and reduce the risk of human error.

By working with Adjacent Solutions, businesses can leverage the power of Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance to enhance their security program and reduce the risk of security breaches.

Key Management Services (KMS) for Enterprise-strength Database Security Tools

Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance provide a depth security platform with multiple levels of security to protect sensitive data in your Oracle databases.

One key feature of this platform is its security alerts and updates, which ensure that you are always up to date with the latest security threats and critical patch updates.

In addition to this, Oracle Key Management Services (KMS) provides enterprise-strength database security tools to protect sensitive data by managing and protecting encryption keys. KMS ensures that only authorized users have access to these keys and provides centralized key management, separation of duties, and continuous innovation.

This helps to ensure that your database remains secure against unauthorized access and exposure in applications while meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

With Adjacent Solutions, you can leverage the power of Oracle Enhanced Security and Compliance to protect your sensitive data and maintain the trust of your customers.

Ensure Security of Your Data

Adjacent Solutions offers comprehensive security support to businesses. Our team of experienced professionals uses their in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience to provide solutions.

We make sure that meet regulatory compliance and ensure uninterrupted system performance.

You can rest easy knowing we protect your organization. We implement advanced security solutions, including hardware security modules and granular access controls.

We understand the importance of proactive security measures and provide cutting-edge solutions to help protect your business from ever-evolving security threats.

Our team has extensive experience in database security. From CPUs, access management, and granular access controls to tablespace encryption and key management. We implement security solutions tailored to your business needs, ensuring regulatory compliance and the protection of your critical data.

Our team leverages the power of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)database performance tuningManaged Services, and more.

As an Oracle license and cloud reseller, we provide businesses with a holistic view of their enterprise and available opportunities to minimize compliance and financial risks.

Trust us to provide security solutions that match your business needs, letting you stay focused on growth and innovation, knowing that we protect your sensitive data.

Contact us today to take the first step toward ensuring the security of your data.

Doing so will help enable a more secure future for your business.


Jonathan Coreil, CEO

Jonathan Coreil is the founder and CEO of Adjacent Solutions. During his experience developing and leading successful Client Success Management teams, he discovered an emerging need to provide companies with specialized technical tools and dedicated talent using Oracle technology and founded Adjacent Solutions. Today, Adjacent Solutions has grown to a leading onshore Oracle solutions integrator and managed services provider in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. For questions or to share blog ideas you’d like to see, please email us at marketing@adjacentsolutions.com.