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Oracle Database Vault Certified for the Oracle E-Business Suite
February 2008 by Marc Jacob
Oracle announced the certification of Oracle Database Vault for use with the Oracle E-Business Suite. This enables customers to better protect sensitive application data from unauthorized access by any user, including privileged users, misusing their database privileges. Oracle Database Vault is the industry’s most advanced database security product designed to enforce when, where, how, and by whom, data can be accessed.
The Oracle E-Business Suite applications including Oracle Human Capital Management, Oracle Financial Management, Oracle Supply Chain Management and Oracle Customer Relationship Management often contain personal identification information (PII), social security or credit card numbers that must be protected. Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Basel II, and Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) require companies to consider separation of duty and strong access controls on access to sensitive information. The certification of Oracle Database Vault for use with the Oracle E-Business Suite enables customers to better address their security and regulatory challenges.
Oracle Database Vault transparently defends against unauthorized access to application data as well as intentional or accidental harmful database changes by any users, even privileged users with database administrator (DBA) rights, taking into consideration multiple factors such as time of day, authentication, application, and more. It can be used to enforce separation of duties within the database, for example, blocking a DBA’s access to sensitive application data while permitting the DBA to perform day-to-day operations such as database backup and recovery, tuning, and replication. With Oracle Database Vault, customers can consolidate application databases and enforce strong boundaries and policies around access to that data.
