Re: Security Issues

Kalle wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>we have an application which is outsourced (I mean the dba support
>is...)...
>
>the data is extremely secret and they shouldn't see it,
>
>also the backup should be protected for outsiders and it should be
>restored as quick as possible...
>
>What kind of ideas you have, and what you recommend for solutions?
>
>TIA
>
>Kalle
>
>

Nearly impossible. If you have security concerns your financial people need to step up to the plate with
sufficient financial resources to hire internal resources to manage the database.

The one and only possible work-around would be encryption using the Obfuscation Toolkit and using
wrapped nested functions and procedures local to package bodies to unencrypt. But I wouldn't consider
it worth doing. Far better to, as Noons suggests, insource.

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