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Oracle database has always been remained a database of choice for the organizations who treasure their business and want to remain at the edge of market. One of the main reason for this preference to Oracle is its consummate and formidable security infrastructure.

10g is the latest and greatest release of Oracle. The Oracle 10g database server facilitates a wide array of features to secure and audit a database driven software. Unfortunately, many software treat security and audit as an after thought rather than an analysis and design goal. Security and audit, to be effective, must be an integral and inherent part of an application.

In today’s IT environment, where the pressure is huge and multi-dimensional, complying with regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others ensure that security is visible at the highest levels of management. An insecure and ill-thought application or an application that does not supply mandated audit trails is no longer an option.

Oracle provides security in four ways: authentication, authorization, data access and audit. Authentication is a verification that you are who you say you are. Authorization is giving access privileges to certain objects, processes or resources. Data Access is the ability to access certain data values associated with an object. Data access security can be partitioned across records and/or across columns. Audit is keeping track of who did what and when.

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