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Oracle Secures DB Data

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As the security administrator, your job is to make sure that the information your business accumulates and/or generates is secure; that it can only be seen by the people who actually need to use it. Your customers expect you to protect their personally sensitive information such as credit card numbers and home phone numbers. Your financial department relies on you to protect their forecast data and analysis. And if those pressures aren't enough, various corporate regulations require not only that your data be kept safe, but that you can also prove your data is safe.

Oracle this week served up two new offerings targeted to the safekeeping of your data--especially your data that happens to be stored in an Oracle Database.

The first, Oracle Secure Backup, seeks to manage the storage of data on tape and provides secure communications (via SSL) between the client systems to be backed up and the tape servers themselves. The product can back up both file system data (Linux, Windows, and UNIX) and Oracle DB data (via integration with Recovery Manager). For Oracle 10g Release 2 data in particular, Oracle Secure Backup allows for the storage of RMAN encrypted data directly to tape; i.e., DB data is both transmitted from the database and stored on tape in an encrypted format. In the first release, file system data is encrypted while in transit but is not encrypted on tape.

Meanwhile, for the protection of live data within the Oracle DB Oracle now offers Oracle Database Vault, an optional extension specifically for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2. Database Vault allows for the definition of data realms within the DB and the creation of access rules that specify who can access those realms and under exactly what circumstances (including time of day, machine IP address, etc.). According to Oracle, with Oracle Database Vault you can protect your sensitive data from even privileged users such as the DBA and application owners.

Database protection not your thing? Have a look at the other key entries in this week's collection of highlighted Enterprise IT Planet Product Guide briefings; including the new 6850 OmniSwitches from Alcatel, remote backup capabilities from LogMeIn, and a transparent and automatic FTP-SFTP conversion option in SSH Tectia.

Jump to:

Security

Oracle Database Vault
NC-1100 / NC-2000
System Detective

Networking:

SSH Tectia
OmniSwitch 6800 / 6850 Series
LogMeIn

Storage

Oracle Secure Backup
Revolution 220
Sybase Mirror Activator
StorCenter

Featured Security Products:

Oracle Database Vault
Oracle.
Provides an additional and separate protection envelope for DB data, preventing unauthorized accesses from privileged users, including DBAs. Includes built in auditing and reporting capabilities.

NC-1100 / NC-2000
NetContinuum, Inc.
Proxy-based appliances provide application protection through session termination and analysis. "Gateway" versions include acceleration (caching, connection pooling, compression, etc.) features.

System Detective
PointSecure.
Intrusion prevention platform for OpenVMS extends access control capabilities and includes session logging and monitoring features. New release runs on HP Integrity (Itanium) servers.

Featured Networking Products:

SSH Tectia
SSH Communications Security Corp.
Software layer operates between networking infrastructure and business applications, providing secure access and communications between clients and servers. New release to include transparent FTP-SFTP conversion option.

OmniSwitch 6800 / 6850 Series
Alcatel.
Line of stackable switches in 24 or 48 port flavors offers Gigabit connectivity. New models offer PoE support, IPv6 support, and optional 10 Gig uplinks.

LogMeIn
LogMeIn, Inc.
Application and service allowing users to access and use a PC from remote locations via Java-enabled Web browsers. New offering allows for remote, scheduled data backups.

Featured Storage Products:

Oracle Secure Backup
Oracle.
Tape-based backup management platform supports Windows, Linux, and UNIX file system backups and encrypted Oracle DB backups via integration with RMAN.

Revolution 220
COPAN Systems, Inc.
Disk storage platform (28 to 448 TB) purpose built for long-term storage of archival (write once, read occasionally) data. VTL and file interfaces available. Now supports 500 GB drives.

Sybase Mirror Activator
Sybase, Inc.
Adds a transactional database replication dimension to existing block-based remote mirroring schemes, reducing overall bandwidth required for mirror traffic. Now available for Oracle.

StorCenter
Iomega Corp.
Line of network hard drives and NAS storage gear in desktop and rackmount flavors for SMBs. New desktop models are served in 500GB/1TB capacities, the larger also supporting wireless.

More Security, Networking, and Storage products and downloads at http://products.enterpriseitplanet.com.

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