Pete Finnigan's Oracle Security Weblog

I wrote a paper about Oracle Database Vault in 12c for SANS last year and this was published in January 2015 by SANS on their website. I also prepared and did a webinar about this paper with SANS. The Paper on Database Vault in 12c was sponsored by Oracle.

The paper was an expert walkthrough of implementing and using Database Vault in 12c. It also covered the main components of Database Vault and showed how easy it is to enabled in 12c. The paper covered the new features added in 12c; the fact it is installed by default and just needs enabling, my favourite feature which is mandatory realms and also the new privilege analysis feature.

I installed an application locally on some VMs, added Database Vault and also built an Oracle Cloud control server and OEM repository. The application is meant to look realistic with its design and implementation issues and I showed how to enable Database Vault in this database and also showed some examples of how it can be used to protect the database out of the box and also how it can be configured to add additional protections.

I also added a walk through of using privilege analysis. The paper is over 24 pages long and is a nice practical walk through of this technology.

If you would like to read the paper it is here - Protecting Access to Data and Privilege With Oracle Database Vault

If you would like to learn much more about securing Oracle databases and protecting them then consider booking a place and attending PeteFinnigan.com Limiteds Oracle Security training Event in York in September 2015.