Protecting Oracle Database 12c

Paul M. Wright OCP has 14 years experience of Securing Oracle within the World's leading technology and financial institutions. Paul has been credited six times by the Oracle Security Patch for ethically reporting original security improvements he has discovered. Paul instructed Oracle Security for SANS.org in 2007 and has since published and presented for IOUG/UKOUG. Paul published the first book on database forensics and led the CIS 11g standard policy update. Paul's interests have expanded to include integration, availability and performance aspects and specifically how to optimise these whilst maintaining risk at acceptable levels. Paul's role as Lead Security person for the 12c Beta since March 2012 has focused new work onto securely achieving consolidation, which is the focus of his latest book for Apress.

• PART I. SECURITY OVERVIEW AND HISTORY 1. Oracle Security History 2. Current state of the Art 3. Extrapolating Current Trends PART II. DEFENSE COOKBOOK 4. Managing Users in Oracle 5. Oracle Vulnerability Scanner 6. Centralized Native Auditing and IPS 7. Pluggable Database Primer PART III. SECURITY IN THE 12C RELEASE 8. New Security Features in 12C 9. Design Flaws, Fixed and Remaining in 12C 10. New Security Issues in 12C 11. Advanced Defenses and Forensic Response PART IV. SECURITY IN CONSOLIDATION 12. Privileged Access Control Foundations 13. Privileged Access Control Methods 14. Securing Privileged Access Control Systems 15. Rootkit Checker and Security Monitoring PART V. ARCHITECTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT 16. Oracle Security Architecture Foundations 17. Enterprise Manager 12c As a Security Tool 18. Defending Enterprise Manager 12c 19. The Cloud and Privileged Access 20. Management and Conclusions