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Oracle Forensics: Oracle Security Best Practices (Oracle In-Focus series)

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Oracle Forensics - Best Practices, Sets the Scene on the science of establishing the Who, What, Where and When of dealing with Oracle security issues from a defensive and reactive standpoint. Published in 2007 I would say this book was ahead of it's time, defining the union of Computer Forensics and Oracle Security. The book is mainly practically oriented and takes a reader with average skills to expert incident handler. I like the ideas about centralised syslog and time security. There is a lot of vulnerability research as well to feed the likely issues that a forensic investigator is likely to see, but the vulnerabilities are becoming dated and I would like to see more about the Why ... not just Who, What, Where and When... but the Why? - in the form of Forensic Psychology - i.e. what causes people to carry out cybercrimes. But in terms of applied Oracle Forensics this the defining technical text. I would also check out Kevvie Fowler's SQL Server Forensics book and David Litchfield's papers which followed after this, as well as Pete Finnigan's site. There is a more detailed review of over at the ACM reviews site but in conclusion this is a good book worth the time investment of reading it.