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Introduction to Detective Controls

  • The role of detective controls in Oracle security
  • Contrasting them with preventive and corrective controls
  • Aligning with enterprise security policies

Unified Auditing Framework

  • Unified audit architecture and key components
  • Enabling and configuring comprehensive audit trails
  • Capturing system events, logons, role usage, and SQL activity

Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA)

  • Implementing policy-based row-level auditing
  • Tracking specific user access patterns
  • Case studies for sensitive data tracking

Standard Auditing (Legacy Support)

  • Manual audit setups for older Oracle versions
  • Auditing statements, privileges, and objects
  • Managing audit trail volume and purging strategies

Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF)

  • AVDF architecture overview and deployment models
  • Centralized aggregation and correlation of audit data
  • Building dashboards, alerts, and reporting views

Log Analysis and Threat Detection

  • Analyzing and interpreting audit logs
  • Behavioral analysis and identifying anomalies
  • Integrating with SIEM and other monitoring platforms

Compliance and Reporting

  • Generating audit reports for regulatory compliance (GDPR, SOX, HIPAA)
  • Managing role-based access to audit data
  • Documentation, data retention, and audit lifecycle management

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of Oracle database security principles
  • Knowledge of Oracle roles, privileges, and audit mechanisms
  • Fundamental experience in database administration and compliance requirements

Audience

  • Database administrators
  • Security operations and compliance teams
  • IT auditors and risk analysts operating within Oracle environments
 14 Hours

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