Just a couple of hours ago I’ve lecture a presentation about the latest Generation of Database Technology at the DOAG SIG Security in München. It is a sneak preview on a few upcoming security improvements. Unfortunately I do not yet have the permission to provide the presentation for download....

In the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, it went under that Oracle had released a new version of Oracle Audit Vault respectively Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. This weekend I found some time to take a first look into the new release. What’s New About a year ago Oracle released...

Slides of the two presentation from the Security Lounge organized by SOUG and DOAG regional group Freiburg. Continue reading →

The DOAG regional group is organizing together with SOUG a Security Lounge on the 24th of April. I'll attend this event with two short presentations on Database Security and Oracle Auditing. Continue reading →

Somewhen beginning of 2012 Oracle has secretly released an update of Oracle Audit Vault. So far just for Linux x86-64bit but I guess other OS will follow. I've just did a short test installation to see what's new and different. Continue reading →

Setting up database audit is fairly easy. Since the availability of DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT the housekeeping of the audit trail is just a trifle. After the introduction of DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT in an post early this February, I would like to take a closer look at the housekeeping of the Audit Trail and provide a simple...

When performing a database security audit various informations about users, roles and privileges have to be collected, including "who has unlimited tablespace on SYSTEM". It is quite easy to find user with UNLIMITED TABLESPACE or a UNLIMITED quota on SYSTEM. But what when the system privilege...