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Oracle Extends Leadership in Database Auditing and Monitoring with
Latest Release of Oracle(r) Audit Vault
Oracle Introduces Support for Microsoft SQL Server Database Auditing, Delivers
New Reporting and Alerting Capabilities to Help Address Regulatory Mandates
and Insider Threats
July 31, 2008
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To help organizations secure all their enterprise databases and address
regulatory requirements, Oracle today announced the general availability
of Oracle(r) Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.
This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault now collects audit data from
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, in addition to Oracle Databases,
addressing the lack of a Microsoft solution for enterprise database auditing
and activity monitoring.
Oracle leads the DBMS industry in native database auditing capabilities
including support for auditing privileged and database users. It supports
auditing at the statement level, object level, and fine-grained auditing that
allow organizations the flexibility to effectively audit their databases.
With Oracle Audit Vault, audit data is automatically consolidated into a
highly secure, centralized repository based on Oracle's proven data
warehousing technology, and analyzed in real-time against enterprisedefined policies. Any unauthorized activities can be immediately detected
using Oracle Audit Vault's dashboard alerts capabilities.
Oracle Audit Vault also features built-in and customizable reports to
address the need for reliable compliance reporting for regulations such as
the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security
Standard (DSS). This latest release introduces additional pre-built reports,
and now captures before-and-after changes to sensitive data to help
organization save time and costs related to compliance reporting.
Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 delivers improved reporting capabilities such as
filtering audit data, highlighting rows with condition values, as well as
generating charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared
within the enterprise or with external auditors.
Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 also increases privileged user monitoring by
auditing Oracle Database Vault, the industry's only native solution for realtime enforcement of preventive database controls. By using Oracle Audit
Vault, Oracle Database Vault customers can now be further assured of the
integrity of their preventive controls.
Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 is priced at $57,500 per processor and the
Oracle Audit Vault Collection Agent for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle
Databases is available for $3,500 per processor.
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"Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 allows organizations to turn database audit data
into mission-critical business intelligence for enabling enterprise security
and regulatory compliance," said Vipin Samar, vice president of Database
Security, Oracle. "With this latest release, Oracle Audit Vault customers
can now also monitor Microsoft SQL Server databases. Additionally, the
new reporting capabilities and alerts dashboards make the product even
more powerful for detecting unauthorized activities and automating critical
compliance reporting functions."
"Although there is no silver bullet when it comes to passing audits, Oracle
Audit Vault enables enterprises to more easily generate the kind of reports
that auditors are looking for," said Sohail Siddiqi, principal and Oracle
Practice Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. "With support for Microsoft
SQL Server, customers with heterogeneous database environments can
also increase the security of their enterprise databases using Oracle Audit
Vault."
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Oracle Expert Blogs
Security Inside Out: http://blogs.oracle.com/securityinsideout
Related Resources
About Oracle Audit Vault:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/audit-vault/index.html
Oracle Audit Vault Data Sheet:
http://www.oracle.com/database/docs/audit-vault-datasheet.pdf
Oracle Audit Vault White Paper:
http://www.oracle.com/database/docs/audit-vault-whitepaper.pdf
Forrester Analyst Report: Oracle Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise
Database Auditing; Tops Native DBMS Auditing
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/sec/databas
e-auditing.pdf
To download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Audit Vault Release
10.2.3, go to:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/auditvault/index.html
Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.
About Oracle Database Security
For more than 30 years, Oracle has led the industry in securing sensitive data.
Oracle Database 11g addresses today's data security challenges from data
encryption, access control, and data classification, to audit and compliance
reporting, as well as secure deployments and data masking. The comprehensive
portfolio of security options for Oracle Database 11g, including Oracle Advanced
Security, Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Data Masking,
and Oracle Audit Vault, help organizations transparently safeguard against data
breaches and ensure regulatory compliance without requiring changes to existing
applications. To learn more about how to protect data with Oracle Database 11g
today, please visit: http://www.oracle.com/database/security.
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