Re: Question re security

  • From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:58:13 +1100

On 15/01/2014 2:46 AM, Hans Forbrich wrote:
On 14/01/2014 12:51 AM, Nuno  Souto wrote:
>> "clickety-click grid control and hope for the best" dbas need not
>> reply, thanking you very much...
> You DO realize that some of those 'DBAs' who rely on the Grid and
> Cloud control are Network Admins with expanded responsibility who
> might have been able to answer that question, don't you?

I *still* don't want to hear their reply!  ;)


I've run into this config  myself, and the main reason was to force
> the DB traffic 'through' SPI and Logging firewalls to conform to
> audit requirements. SPI hit latency hard, but the logging
> continued. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l

Strange audit requirements... Are you sure the auditors had a vague notion what a network connection between an app server and a db server does and how it works? Our auditors haven't got a clue, so we just ignore ANY of their recommendations on the subject. They are the kind that "tut-tut" at select access on ALL_TABLES given to PUBLIC. Mostly because they trust blindly the output of "security check" scripts they have been sold by "experts" who hadn't a clue in the first place...


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Cheers
Nuno Souto
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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