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What is Oracle Security, Identity, and Compliance?

Oracle Corporation is a popular IT company that offers many products and services widely used by organizations and businesses. It manages its data hosted on the cloud and on-premises. However, while talking about data it is compulsory to talk about the internal and external security threats to an organization’s data and its prevention. Oracle Security, Identity, and Compliance Solutions aid in ensuring the confidentiality, availability, security, and integrity of sensitive data.

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Overview of Oracle Security

The term “Oracle Security” refers to the technologies and measures that offer a level of protection to Oracle products, such as databases, applications, and systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, destruction, and misuse. The mission of Oracle cloud security is automated, always available, and architected-in due to its advanced features and scalability.

Let’s discuss some advanced features provided by Oracle security solutions:

  • Encryption
  • Access Control
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Audit Vault
  • Threat Detection
  • Database Firewall
  • Network Firewall
  • Database Vault

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall aid in collecting and analyzing audit data from multiple sources to detect and prevent unauthorized access. On the other hand, Oracle Database Vault offers powerful access control and separation of duties capabilities that aid organizations and businesses to meet their compliance requirements.

Importance of Oracle Security

Oracle Security’s aim is to protect the sensitive data of the user from unauthorized access or data breaches. Without security, users cannot work properly, and any Cyber attacker can harm their valuable information which may result in damage to reputation and defamation. It also arms organizations with the capability of protection against external and internal threats, to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Overview of Oracle Identity

Oracle Identity solution offers user identity and access management capabilities for Oracle applications, systems, and data. It provides secure and scalable identity management capabilities that aid organizations to ensure proper access control and manage user access across their IT infrastructure.

The Oracle Identity solution includes:

  • Identity Governance: It automates access controls and user provisioning to ensure the right user access to data.
  • Access Management: It aids organizations to offer centralized access control and authorization policies.
  • Identity Cloud Service: It is a complete cloud-based identity solution, including identity lifecycle management, single sign-on capabilities, and federation.
  • Directory Service: It offers an integrated directory solution that is designed to meet the demands of modern enterprise deployments on various environments, such as cloud and mobile.

Importance of Oracle Identity

Oracle Identity ensures the security and compliance of an Organization’s IT infrastructure by managing the user identities and authorized access to the user data and applications. It aids in enforcing access policies and managing user roles and responsibilities.

Overview of Oracle Compliance

Oracle Compliance makes sure that an organization complies with its regulations, standards, and guidelines to ensure the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of its sensitive data. It offers tools and services to aid organizations that meet complex regulatory environments requirements, such as HIPAA and GDPR.

Let’s enlist some products offered by Oracle Compliance Solution:

  • Risk Management Cloud: It is a cloud-based solution for an organization’s risk and compliance management.
  • Financial Services Anti-Money Laundering: It aids in complying with the anti-money laundering regulations in the financial departments of organizations.
  • Enterprise Manager: It ensures compliance with regulatory requirements through a unified and centralized monitoring and management of an organization.

Importance of Oracle Compliance

Oracle Compliance is essential to ensuring the security and privacy of an organization’s data by following the organization’s regulations, standards, and guidelines. Oracle Compliance Solutions provides low-cost tools and services to automate compliance processes and manage risk.

Conclusion

Oracle Security, Identity, and Compliance solutions are critical components for an organization. It protects its sensitive data, performs access management, and ensures compliance with regulations, standards, and guidelines. Oracle Security provides advanced features for sensitive data protection and Oracle Identity focuses on user identity and access management. On the other hand, Oracle Compliance provides a solution to meet a complex regulatory environment.

About the author

Nimrah Ch

I’m a technical writer with a Bachelor's in Software Engineering and Certification in Cyber Security. Through my research and writing, I strive to provide readers with in-depth, informative articles that can help them make informed decisions about their technological needs.