Oracle Database Security: Detective Controls

• An understanding of Oracle database security principles
• Familiarity with Oracle roles, privileges, and audit mechanisms
• Basic experience with database administration and compliance requirements

Audience

• Database administrators
• Security operations and compliance teams
• IT auditors and risk analysts working with Oracle environments

Oracle Database Security includes detective controls that monitor, log, and alert on potentially unauthorized or malicious activity — ensuring compliance, visibility, and faster incident response.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level Oracle DBAs and security professionals who wish to configure and monitor auditing, logging, and activity detection features in Oracle environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Enable and customize Oracle auditing tools for compliance and monitoring.
• Configure Oracle Unified Audit, Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA), and audit policies.
• Deploy Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall for centralized monitoring.
• Detect and analyze suspicious behavior and potential threats.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on use of Oracle auditing and monitoring features.
• Guided exercises focused on audit design, policy enforcement, and alerting.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your organization's audit policies, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction to Detective Controls

• Purpose of detective controls in Oracle security
• Comparison with preventive and corrective controls
• Integration with enterprise security policies

Unified Auditing Framework

• Unified audit architecture and components
• Enabling and configuring audit trails
• Auditing system events, logons, role usage, and SQL activity

Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA)

• Policy-based row-level auditing
• Monitoring specific user access patterns
• Examples for sensitive data tracking

Standard Auditing (Legacy Support)

• Manual audit configurations for older Oracle versions
• Audit statements, privileges, objects
• Managing audit trail size and purging

Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF)

• Overview of AVDF architecture and deployment
• Centralized collection and correlation of audit data
• Creating dashboards, alerts, and reports

Log Analysis and Threat Detection

• Reviewing and interpreting audit logs
• Behavioral analysis and anomaly detection
• Integration with SIEM and monitoring platforms

Compliance and Reporting

• Generating audit reports for compliance (GDPR, SOX, HIPAA)
• Role-based access to audit data
• Documentation, retention, and audit lifecycle management

Summary and Next Steps