RE: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?

  • From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:06:50 -0400

Simple answer, no.  Which leads to the issue of which versions of Red
Hat will run on what hardware.  Note to Business folks: should the
current hardware become nonfunctional and unsupportable then these
databases are dead, period, start crying.

Richard Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader


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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hans Forbrich
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:07 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?

At the risk of hijacking the thread, curiosity compels the question:

Does the OS change under those 8.1.7 environments?

(If yes, do you go through the same recert process? If no, how do you
maintain security?)

/Hans

On 21/06/2011 8:50 AM, Goulet, Richard wrote:
> Yes, there are folks still running 8.1.7.  We've 4 instances, business

> critical, and "no you can't upgrade those, it's take us a year to 
> re-certify them".
>
> Richard Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader
>
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Litchfield
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:29 AM
> To: Wolfgang Breitling
> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?
>
> On 20/06/2011 20:28, Wolfgang Breitling wrote:
>> What do you mean "a wee bit old"? There are people out there who are 
>> still running Oracle 8i !!
>>
> I mean "old" insofar as the books were written before my research on 
> cursor snarfing, cursor injection, lateral sql injection etc, etc...
> Maybe I should write a second edition :) Cheers, David
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