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Oracle Security Auditing Training Course

© 2016 by Burleson Corporation

This Oracle security training course is taught at your Company site with up to 20 students. 

Click here for on-site course prices

Optional supplemental mentoring

 

Key Features

* Understand the legal requirements for privacy auditing.

* See internals of Oracle auditing solutions.

* Employ system-level triggers to audit important Oracle events.

* Understand Virtual Private Databases.

* Use role-based security to ensure access rules.

* Learn about security exposures inside Oracle.

* Understand Oracle "Grant Execute" security.

* Learn how to plug backdoor access holes.

  

Course Description

Our Oracle Security Auditing training class is an intensive three-day course designed to provide auditing professionals with an in-depth understanding of how to audit all areas of Oracle databases. 

Designed by a world-leading Oracle auditing professional and author of
HIPAA Auditing for Oracle Database Security, this Oracle security training course teaches all areas of Oracle auditing including auditing Oracle security, auditing Oracle access controls, auditing Oracle recoverability, auditing data integrity, and auditing security exposures.

Book Required

 

Oracle Privacy Security Auditing

Arup Nanda

Rampant TechPress, 2016

ISBN: 0-9727513-9-4 

Audience

This Oracle security auditing training course is designed for practicing auditors with some IT technical skills.  Oracle experience is helpful but students should have basic knowledge of SQL and the use of a relational database. Prior experience with Oracle is not required, but experience using SQL with a relational database is highly desirable.

Curriculum Design

This Oracle security auditing training course is designed by Donald K. Burleson, an acknowledged leader in Oracle auditing techniques.  Burleson was chosen by Oracle Press to write four of the authorized Oracle Press editions on Oracle database management.   Burleson has 23 years of full-time DBA experience, is the author of 18 books, and serves as Editor-in-chief of Oracle Internals.  Burleson Corporation instructors offer decades of real world DBA experience in Oracle features, and they will share their Oracle secrets in this intense Oracle Auditing class.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this Oracle security auditing training course the student will be able to describe the methods for controlling security within an Oracle database, and understanding the concepts behind Oracle auditing for security, Oracle auditing for recoverability, Oracle HIPAA auditing, and Oracle auditing for data integrity.


 

Oracle Security Training Course
 
Three Day Class

Syllabus

© 2016 by Donald K. Burleson

 
DAY 1 – Introduction to Oracle auditing
 
1 – Introduction to database auditing
  • Review of course topics
  • Goals of database auditing
  • Auditing techniques for Oracle - Data dictionary
 2 - Introduction to Oracle SQL*Plus
  • Writing data dictionary queries
  • Spooling output
  • Editing SQL statements
  • Exercise - Write a basic SQL query report
3 - Writing Oracle audit scripts with SQL*Plus
  • Writing column formats
  • Computing sums and averages
  • Writing complex queries
  • Exercise - Write an audit report
4 – Basics areas of Oracle auditing
  • Oracle grant security auditing
  • Oracle grant execute security auditing
  • Oracle virtual private databases (fine-grained access control) auditing
  • Oracle data integrity auditing
  • Auditing Oracle recoverability
  • Auditing Oracle disaster recovery
5 – Oracle grant auditing
  • Overview of relational grant security
  • Review of the Oracle data dictionary (dba_role_privs, etc)
  • Exercise - Audit grant privileges
6 - Oracle grant execute security
  • Overview of grant execute security
  • Definer and invoker rights
  • Exercise create a package and stored procedure and grant rights
DAY 2 – Advanced Oracle security auditing
 
 1 - Auditing grant execute security
  • Overview of dba_objects and dba_source views
  • Dictionary views for grant execute security
  • Exercise - Audit grant execute access to packages, procedures & functions
2 - Oracle role-based security
  • Introduction to roles
  • stacking roles
  • assigning roles to users
  • Exercise - create roles & assign to users
  • Exercise audit role-based security
        

 

 
 
               3 – Problems with grant security
  • System privileges and object privileges
  • Overlapping data access
  • Using views with grant security
  • Exercise - Implement row-level and column level security with a view
 4 & 5– Oracle virtual private databases
  •  VPD basics
  • Exercise - Write a simple VPD and test it
6 – Auditing VPD security
  • VPD dictionary views
  •  Exercise - Write a VPD audit
DAY 3 – Oracle system auditing
 
1 - Auditing distributed databases
  • Oracle database links
  • Oracle distributed security
  • The two-phase commit
  • Exercise - Create a database link & audit access
2 – Oracle auditing for data integrity
  • Oracle DDL auditing
  • Oracle error auditing
  • Oracle referential integrity auditing
  • Exercise - Write a DDL audit trigger
3 - Oracle auditing for redundancy
  • Oracle materialized views
  • Oracle replication
  • Oracle snapshots
  • Oracle multi-master replication
  • Exercise - Audit scripts for distributed databases
 4 - Auditing recoverability
  • Oracle redo log management
  • Oracle failsafe
  • Oracle9i Data guard
  • Oracle RAC and TAF
5 - Auditing data privacy (HIPAA)
  • Oracle audit SQL command
  • Viewing audit information
  • Exercise - Audit access to an Oracle table
6 - Oracle tools for data privacy
  • Oracle fine-grained auditing
  • Managing audit trails
  • Exercise - Write an FGA audit

 

 

This is a BC Oracle security training course (c) 2016

   

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