Author: Roy Salazar

Data Safe is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security service that provides a set of features to protect sensitive and regulated data in Oracle databases, for both Standard and Enterprise Editions, since version 11.2.0.4.     OCI can assess your…

Performing a simple manual migration and upgrade from EC2 to RDS without using S3 Object Storage: Here I will give a brief example of how to import data from Oracle Database on-premises or VM in EC2 into an RDS instance…

The Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) is a command-line tool focused on identifying how securely the database is configured and where sensitive data resides with the goal of promoting successful approaches to mitigating potential security risks. DBSAT requires no…

The scope of this article is to show how to run DBSAT (Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool) against an Amazon RDS Oracle instance. This is based on a real-life execution. The DBSAT version used was 2.0.2 over an RDS database…

The scope of this article is to provide a brief summary of how to run Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) on Oracle Real Application Cluster using the parameters to exclude sections on the Reporter to avoid duplicated information into…

Recently Oracle released the newest version of the “Database Security Assessment Tool” (DBSAT 2.1.0). This version is certified to run against Oracle Cloud DBCS (PaaS) and Autonomous Databases. Also, the Discoverer option can now find sensitive and personal data in…

Oracle’s Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) is a nice and powerful free tool that performs Database and OS Security Audits and provides recommendations based on the findings. The tool and documentation can be downloaded from the following Oracle link (although…