Preface

Welcome to Oracle Database Security Guide. This guide describes how you can configure security for Oracle Database by using the default database features.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Database Security Guide is intended for database administrators (DBAs), security administrators, application developers, and others tasked with performing the following operations securely and efficiently:

• Designing and implementing security policies to protect the data of an organization, users, and applications from accidental, inappropriate, or unauthorized actions

• Creating and enforcing policies and practices of auditing and accountability for inappropriate or unauthorized actions

• Creating, maintaining, and terminating user accounts, passwords, roles, and privileges

• Developing applications that provide desired services securely in a variety of computational models, leveraging database and directory services to maximize both efficiency and ease of use

To use this document, you need a basic understanding of how and why a database is used, and basic familiarity with SQL.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more security-related information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database Vault Administrator's Guide

Many of the examples in this guide use the sample schemas of the seed database, which you can create when you install Oracle Database. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

Oracle Store

Printed documentation is available for sale in the Oracle Store at

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/

Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

You can download free release notes, installation documentation, updated versions of this guide, white papers, or other collateral from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Visit

http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

If you are not already a member, you can register for free at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/membership/

For security-specific information on OTN, visit

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/index.html

For the latest version of the Oracle documentation, including this guide, visit

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html

Oracle Documentation Search Engine

To access the database documentation search engine directly, visit

http://tahiti.oracle.com/

OracleMetaLink

You can find information about security patches, certifications, and the support knowledge base by visiting OracleMetaLink at

http://metalink.oracle.com/

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: