Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security [Paperback]

Josh Shaul (Author), Aaron Ingram (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 26, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1597491985 | ISBN-13: 978-1597491983 | Edition: 1

This is the only practical, hands-on guide available to database administrators to secure their Oracle databases. This book will help the DBA to assess their current level of risk as well as their existing security posture. It will then provide practical, applicable knowledge to appropriately secure the Oracle database. The book's companion Web site contains dozens of working scripts that DBA's can use to secure and automate their Oracle databases.

* The only practical, hands-on guide for securing your Oracle database published by independent experts.
* Companion Web site contains dozens of scripts to help you automate security tasks.
* Your Oracle database does not exist in a vacuum, so this book shows you how to securely integrate your database into your enterprise.

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Josh Shaul got started in the security industry with SafeNet, Inc. in 1997, working on the industry's first complete IPsec accelerator chip. During a five year tenure as a SafeNet developer, Josh spent time designing, developing and enhancing SafeNet's embedded security solutions for a wide range of applications. For the last four years Josh has focused primarily on field engineering, helping companies deploy security SW and HW into various Networking Devices, SoCs, and Processing Platforms. He is an expert on security protocols and standards, trusted computing, and application level security. Recently, Josh has focused primarily on database security, working to assist large organization in developing the proper defense-in-depth strategy to secure sensitive data at its source. Josh is currently responsible for Worldwide Systems Engineering at Application Security, Inc.

Aaron has fifteen years experience developing enterprise software, focusing on database systems and security applications. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University, he worked at Accenture as a consultant for Fortune 500 financial and telecommunication companies and for various government agencies. He then worked for ShieldIP creating Digital Rights Protection technology. Most recently, he merged his extensive database background with his security skills to manage the development of Application Security's real-time database intrusion detection and security auditing solution, AppRadar.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (November 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597491985
• ISBN-13: 978-1597491983
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security (Paperback)

This book is one of the most useful books on Oracle security. I work as a DBA and it allows me to plan and use other Oracle products and lock down my instances and find hackers and keep them out. The last site was so impressed with my work the head DBA order copies for all the other Oracle DBA's.