Built upon the existing EBS 12.2 framework, the Oracle Database Vault is a security management tool developed to protect databases and privileged information from unrestricted access. Sensitive data and database objects are padlocked in digital vaults, with access lent only when specific conditions are met.
The 19c release enables smoother integration of your organizational data towards a more secure setup within the latest release of E-Business Suite. It develops easier communication channels between the application user, the database and the database analyst through secure mediums of information flow.
Business benefits
Preventing sensitive data exposure
Built-in controls for cost-efficient compliance routes, segregation of duties and the access control provisions of HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS and other regulations, to prevent leak of audit findings, trade information and other sensitive data.
Managing user access
Preventive controls stop unauthorized access to privileged data within a data silo. With different levels of user and DBA privilege, access to confidential data is dispensed at a suitable scale.
Building efficient environments
Application-specific protection policies for Fusion and EBS applications provide a foundation for secure repositories, resulting in clean communication between the data and the users.
Mitigating business risk
On detecting external attacks, the Vault lets you enforce operational controls inside the database to lock down the configuration and mitigate the risk of a breach.
Key features
Realms prevent privilege misuse
The Vault creates realms within your database preventing unauthorized access to application data while maintaining a rigid database structure. Even users with direct object grants, including the object owner, are given only restricted access to the whole of the database.
Safer production environments
It helps prevent detrimental changes propagated by human error, or by unauthorized access to the production environment within your EBS setup.
A single trusted path
Even where credentials or transaction passwords are stolen, the Vault defines a singular trusted path between application users and the database, locking out external interference with sensitive data.
Operations controls
Vault operations controls mean infrastructure DBAs and multi-tenant container administrators are given only restricted data from pluggable databases, maintaining streamlined workflows within secure realms.
Simulation mode
You can verify security controls on custom and packaged applications by running the database application in simulation mode before enforcing them.
Securing your data
Moving from orthodox norms of data protection towards an uplifted standard is the first step towards digitization, implementing the technologies that support more coherent and efficient data management and security.