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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)
Jay,
You did not say what type of an employer you are currently at, so it is
tough to comment.
I have seen *very* strict controls put into place at various places of
employment. It sounds like you are at a gov't facility where audit and
control is serious business.
You have three choices:
1). try and work thru the system to show why this is a bad idea - like let
the system go to hell and explain that you would have fixed it, but have
been waiting for a signature from the VP.
2). flood the VP with so many requests that he/she sees how ridiculous the
requirement is.
3). if all else fails, start looking for another job. at exit interview
time, explain that the audit process is NOT conducive to business standards.
hope this helps
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
One of the reasons DBA's are paid well is that they have total control over the production data. No matter what rules the auditors put in place, a DBA could manipulate the data if they wanted to. The company should trust you to do your job and not put up read blocks that prevent you from maintaining the database and making changes in a timely manner.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 9:32 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
We've been through an internal audit and I was just wondering if anyone else
has to deal with the rather ludicrous requirements I now have. In order to
add or resize a datafile I now need to fill out a form and get Senior VP
approval and the alert logs must be reviewed every day by a non-DBA in order
to be certain that I didn't make any database changes without such approval.
The auditors were horrified to discover that not only did I do such things
whenever I thought them necessary but that we didn't have a non-DBA review
everything I did after an Oracle upgrade to ensure I didn't install any
other software.
Fortunately I managed to convince them that yes, I really did need a Unix
login (they were skeptical).
So, any similar horror stories?
Jay Miller
Sr. Oracle DBA
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