RE: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:06:50 -0400
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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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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_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of David Litchfield
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> To: Wolfgang Breitling
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> 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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