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

  • From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:07:10 -0600

David Litchfield's books 

The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers

and 

The Oracle Hacker's Handbook: Hacking and Defending Oracle

come to mind

On 2011-06-20, at 11:31 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote:

> List,
> 
>    After a few years in the field of database administration I've come to 
> realize that I am utterly unprepared to deal with an attack on my databases. 
> Luckily enough I haven't had to test that, but as it is I have no experience 
> and I feel that if the day ever came that I had to either find out how an 
> attack happened (post-mortem) or deal with one in real time I would be 
> outwitted by most attackers. Furthermore, I fear that our security guidelines 
> are outdated and probably rather pointless by now. I'd like to start reading 
> up on this specially about real life attacks on database security and ways to 
> secure the database that grant the best possible security and minimizes pain 
> for the users.
> 
>   Does anybody have any good books/white papers/websites to recommend?
> 
>   Of course, I'm already familiar with Pete Finnigan's web 
> www.petefinnigan.com. And there are a few of the white papars published there 
> as well as the tools that look very interesting.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Alan.-

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