Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog

PFCLScan Reseller Program

We are going to start a reseller program for PFCLScan and we have started the plannng and recruitment process for this program. I have just posted a short blog on the PFCLScan website titled " PFCLScan Reseller Program ". If....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 29/10/13 At 01:05 PM

PFCLScan Version 1.3 Released

We released version 1.3 of PFCLScan our enterprise database security scanner for Oracle a week ago. I have just posted a blog entry on the PFCLScan product site blog that describes some of the highlights of the over 220 new....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 18/10/13 At 02:36 PM

PFCLScan Updated and Powerful features

We have just updated PFCLScan our companies database security scanner for Oracle databases to version 1.2 and added some new features and some new contents and more. We are working to release another service update also in the next couple....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 04/09/13 At 02:45 PM

Oracle Security Training, 12c, PFCLScan, Magazines, UKOUG, Oracle Security Books and Much More

It has been a few weeks since my last blog post but don't worry I am still interested to blog about Oracle 12c database security and indeed have nearly 700 pages of notes in MS Word related to 12c security....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 28/08/13 At 05:04 PM

Oracle 12c Security - SQL Translation and Last Logins

There has been some big new security items added to 12cR1 such as SHA2 in DBMS_CRYPTO, code based security in PL/SQL, Data Redaction, unified audit or even privilege analysis but also as I hinted in some previous blogs there are....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 31/07/13 At 11:11 AM

Hacking Oracle 12c COMMON Users

The main new feature of Oracle 12cR1 has to be the multitennant architecture that allows tennant databases to be added or plugged into a container database. I am interested in the security of this of course and one element that....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 23/07/13 At 02:52 PM

Oracle Security Loop hole from Steve Karam

I just saw a link to a post by Steve Karam on an ISACA list and went for a look. The post is titled " Password Verification Security Loophole ". This is an interesting post discussing the fact that ALTER....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 22/07/13 At 08:39 PM

Oracle Database 12c Security Auditing

I started to ask a question a few blog posts ago about how does the 12cR1 database affect database security audits. I have decided to come back to it now as it is a good chance to do so. I....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 08/07/13 At 05:31 PM