Introduction To Oracle Advanced Security; Security Challenges In An Enterprise Environment - Oracle Database B10772-01 Administrator's Manual

Introduction to Oracle Advanced Security

This chapter introduces Oracle Advanced Security, summarizing the security risks
it addresses, and describing its features. These features are available to database
and related products that interface with Oracle Net Services, including Oracle
Database, Oracle Application Server, and Oracle Identity Management
infrastructure.
This chapter contains the following topics:

Security Challenges in an Enterprise Environment

To increase efficiency and lower costs, companies adopt strategies to automate
business processes. One such strategy is to conduct more business on the Web, but
that requires greater computing power, translating to higher IT costs. In response to
rising IT costs, more and more businesses are considering enterprise
computing
machine. While such strategies improve the bottom line, they introduce risks, which
are associated with securing data in motion and managing an ever increasing
number of user identities.
This section examines the security challenges of today's enterprise computing
environments in the following topics:
Security Challenges in an Enterprise Environment
Solving Security Challenges with Oracle Advanced Security
Oracle Advanced Security Architecture
Secure Data Transfer Across Network Protocol Boundaries
System Requirements
Oracle Advanced Security Restrictions
architectures where inexpensive computers act as one powerful
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