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

Richard Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Forbrich [mailto:fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:24 PM
To: Goulet, Richard
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?

Interesting in the way management does cost vs risk analysis.

Thanks for the answer.
/Hans

On 21/06/2011 10:06 AM, Goulet, Richard wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hans Forbrich
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read?
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> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of David Litchfield
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:29 AM
>> To: Wolfgang Breitling
>> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> 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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