Securing Your Database: A Roadmap

To learn how to secure your database, you must follow these general steps:

1. Secure your Oracle Database installation and configuration.

   Complete the tasks in Securing the Database Installation and Configuration to secure access to an Oracle Database installation.

2. Secure user accounts for your site.

   Complete the tasks in Securing Oracle Database User Accounts, which builds on About User Accounts, where you learned how to create user accounts. You learn the following:

   • How to expire, lock, and unlock user accounts

   • Guidelines to choose secure passwords

   • How to change a password

   • How to enforce password management

   • Why you must encrypt passwords in Oracle Database tables

3. Understand how privileges work.

   Complete the tasks in Managing User Privileges. You learn about the following:

   • How privileges work

   • Why you must be careful about granting privileges

   • How database roles work

   • How to create secure application roles

4. Secure data as it travels across the network.

   Complete the tasks in Securing the Network to learn how to secure client connections and to configure network encryption.

5. Control access to data.

   Complete the tasks in Securing Data, in which you learn about the following:

   • How to use transparent data encryption to automatically encrypt database table columns and tablespaces

   • How to control data access with Oracle Virtual Private Database

   • How to enforce row-level security with Oracle Label Security

   • How to control system administrative access to sensitive data with Oracle Database Vault.

6. Configure auditing so that you can monitor the database activities.

   Complete the tasks in Auditing Database Activity to learn about standard auditing.