Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Copyright PeteFinnigan.com Ltd 2005, All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001612.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com The 21st anniversary of this blog is coming up on the 20th September 2025. I started this blog on the 20th of September 2004 and it has been doing well ever since. I write almost exclusively on the subject of....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001612.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 10/09/25 At 11:55 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001611.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I did a five part series on the security of AUDSYS.AUD$UNIFIED and showed how it works at a functional level and how it might be secured by Oracle and how we might design a similar system using standard database license....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001611.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 09/09/25 At 08:56 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001610.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com This is the next part of the series looking at the AUDSYS schema and AUD$UNIFIED table that Oracle has created and protected. In the first part we explored what AUDSYS and AUD$UNIFIED looks like in terms of security; in part....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001610.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 03/09/25 At 11:38 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001609.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com This is the next part (4th part) of the series exploring the AUDSYS schema and AUD$UNIFIED table that is READONLY with a lot of INSERTING and sometimes deleting. In the first part we explored the AUDSYS schema and the AUD$UNIFIED....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001609.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 26/08/25 At 08:54 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001608.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com In the two parts of this series on the security of AUDSYS.AUD$UNIFIED we looked at the main security features of the AUDSYS user and the AUD$UNIFIED table so that we could imagine using these same features ourselves. I have taught....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001608.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 19/08/25 At 12:03 PM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001607.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com In Oracle a user is the same as a schema - well not 100% true - so lets explain a bit. Firstly at a logical high level in Oracle a user is an account used by a real person to....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001607.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 14/08/25 At 08:38 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001606.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com In the recent blog first part of this series on the security of AUDSYS.AUD$UNIFIED we looked at the main features of the AUDSYS user and its ability or design to stop anyone from randomly deleting or updating or doing DDL....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001606.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 12/08/25 At 12:52 PM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z tag:,2025-09-10:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001605.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I was emailed by Cameron overnight to tell me that he has written a new unwrapper for PL/SQL. There have been no public unwrappers for 9ir2 and lower available on the internet for a long time. There were a number....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001605.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 07/08/25 At 10:00 AM</p> 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 2025-09-10T11:57:53Z PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security.