Data Safe

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SQL Firewall in Oracle Data Safe

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: Oct. 31, 2023

The SQL Firewall feature of Oracle Data Safe lets you administer and monitor SQL Firewall for your Oracle Database 23c …

Data Safe: Stop scheduled user and security assessments

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: July 31, 2023

Oracle Data Safe now provides you with the option to stop schedules for the latest user and security assessments. This can be useful if you're performing planned maintenance on a target database and don't want to receive user or security assessments for that time. Stopped schedules can easily be restarted. For more information, see Stop a User Assessment Schedule or Stop a Security Assessment Schedule in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.

Data Safe:

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: May 31, 2023

If you navigate to a region where you do not have any target databases registered a guided tour of Oracle Data Safe will automatically start. The tour provides a high-level overview of the features of Oracle Data Safe and how to start using them to improve the security of your databases. For more information, see Oracle Data Safe Guided Tour in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.

Data Safe: Compare and update a masking policy based on changes to the sensitive data model

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: April 30, 2023

Oracle Data Safe now allows you to compare a masking policy to the associated sensitive data model. The comparison identifies any differences between the sensitive data models and masking policy and allows you to select changes that will synchronize with the masking policy. This allows users to update an existing masking policy when new sensitive columns are discovered using incremental discovery. For more information, see Compare a Masking Policy to a Sensitive Data Model in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.

Data Safe: User profile insights

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: April 30, 2023

Oracle Data Safe now uses the user profiles that are already defined on the target database to provide you with User Profile insights. With User Profiles, you gain a comprehensive understanding of the password-related attributes associated with your Oracle Database user profiles, helping you to strengthen the system's overall security. For more information, see About User Profiles in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.

Data Safe: Advanced masking options

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: March 31, 2023

With Oracle Data Safe, you can now provide the tablespace that should be used for masking, choose the level of parallel execution, if redo logs should be disabled during masking, how invalid objects will be recompiled after masking and more. These masking options can be defined when creating a masking policy or for a specific masking run. For more information on defining the masking options when creating the masking policy, see Create Masking Policies or for more information on setting and changing the masking options for a masking run, see Mask Sensitive Data on a Target Database in the Using Oracle Data Safe guide.

Data Safe: Audit Insights

  • Services: Data Safe
  • Release Date: Feb. 23, 2023

You can now use Audit Insights to view and analyze the audit volume of several items, such as target databases, schemas, and database users.