Oracle Further Automates Database Auditing and Monitoring With Latest Release of Oracle(R) Audit Vault
November 11, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
News Facts
- To help organizations secure all their enterprise databases and address
regulatory requirements, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Audit
Vault Release 10.2.3.2.
- This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault introduces key new reporting
and alerting capabilities that streamline and help reduce the cost of the
database audit process.
Complete Solution for Database Auditing and Activity Monitoring
Delivers New Reporting, Alerting, Compliance Features - Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2 automates the database audit
process with new features including:
- Report scheduling, notification, attestation and archiving capabilities
that can help organizations lower the cost of complying with internal and
external data privacy and protection mandates;
- Entitlement reports with up-to-date snapshots of Oracle Database users,
privileges and profiles, which allow auditors to track changes to database
access;
- Compliance reports to specifically address the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and
the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) regulatory
requirements for database activity monitoring and audit; and,
- Automated cleanup of audit trail data from supported Oracle and
non-Oracle databases once that audit data has been securely consolidated in
the Oracle Audit Vault repository which helps reduce the operational costs
of database auditing.
- To further help organizations streamline the database activity
monitoring and audit process, and respond to security and regulatory
exceptions rapidly, the latest release of Oracle Audit Vault also
introduces support for email alerts as well as an automated interface to
BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, a leading solution for ITIL-aligned
service management processes.
- According to a recent Independent
Oracle User Group (IOUG) 2009 Data Security Report, over 70 percent of
respondents use native database auditing to monitor database activity.
Oracle leads the DBMS industry in native database auditing capabilities
including support for auditing privileged and database users.
- With Oracle Audit Vault, audit data is automatically consolidated into
a highly secure, centralized repository based on Oracle's proven data
warehousing technology. As the audit data is consolidated in the Oracle
Audit Vault repository it is analyzed in real-time against
enterprise-defined policies. Unauthorized activities are immediately
detected, and IT staff notified to help ensure database security.
- Oracle Audit Vault features numerous built-in and easily customizable
reports to help organizations save time and costs related to compliance
reporting. Powerful report customization capabilities include filtering
audit data, highlighting rows with condition values as well as generating
charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared within the
enterprise or with external auditors.
- Oracle Audit Vault is part of a comprehensive and proven portfolio of
database security solutions, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle
Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Data Masking and Oracle Total
Recall, that help organizations transparently safeguard against data
breaches and ensure regulatory compliance without requiring changes to
existing applications.
Supporting Quotes - "This new release of Oracle Audit Vault will allow organizations to
further automate their database activity monitoring and auditing processes,
reducing the overall cost of meeting regulatory requirements and securing
critical data," said Vipin Samar, vice president of Database Security,
Oracle. "Oracle consulted with IT auditors to help ensure that the new
Oracle Audit Vault entitlements and compliance specific reports contain the
information needed to pass real-world database audits."
- "Oracle Audit Vault reports contain the necessary information auditors
are looking for when they conduct database compliance and security audits,"
said Joseph DeVita, Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance leader at
PricewaterhouseCoopers. "With support for Oracle and non-Oracle databases,
Oracle Audit Vault provides a robust solution for enterprise database
activity monitoring and audit."
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Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company.
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http://www.oracle.com.
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Eloy Ontiveros
Oracle
1.650.607.6458
Email Contact
Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus for Oracle
1.415.856.5145
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