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Two new auditing roles
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Based on the history, efficiency, and performance, an oracle 12 c is among the best in the industry. Their database was established in 2013 with the motive of improving performance and making work more accessible and the utilizers of the services to transition and move to cloud computing. Most businesses aspire to come up with a more secure sensitive database that can be accessed via a manner that is cost-efficient (Greenwald, Stackowiak, & Stern, 2013). The motive of coming up with a cost-efficient and more secure methods is what led to the formation of the Oracle 12c. It can come up with proven security strategies and measures in a single security platform. It has played a vital role since its inception in relieving customers and also making it easy to standardize the cloud-based services. The need to keep the system more secure, the company has been introducing databases that are more secure and possess advanced features of security. The two foremost are the and AUDIT VIEWER and AUDIT ADMIN
A database must be fully understood, and database auditing is a process that makes use of observations to create awareness, especially in IT. It has seasons to be secure in that it denies access to those not authorized; hence information kept with the highest level of privacy .” database auditing entails the tracking of authority and records with regards to database security." During the database auditing, the operations are logged into and are also tracked in what is known as an audit trail to make it possible to identify the set of data that were touched (Greenwald, Stackowiak, & Stern, 2013). The affected accounts and the time the activities or the attempted compromise was made. The motive behind auditing is the fact that it ensures quality and data usability to meet specified purposes. It also creates room for shortening the duration intended for correcting various human errors. When data has been corrected and is clean, it makes it more reliable and credible. Data is also kept safe from various compromises and compliances of the data.
The named audit roles were brought forth by the Oracle 12c. The audit viewer was introduced to manage various policies in auditing.” audit policies such as defined auditing, initiating housekeeping and maintaining the retention of the audit data “It enabled analysis by the users for various security reasons (Oracle 12c database: Administration, 2016). The AUDIT-VIEWER allows the configuration of auditing by the users to come up with unified fine-grained policies for auditing. Audit viewer came to existence as a result of the need to come up with a conclusive report based on audit data. It can make the external auditors analyze and view data.
The need to beef up security is the motive behind the introduction of the two roles. AUDIT ADMIN had the intention of making audit views easier and making it audit trail easier and effective. It also can identify an omitted audit policy. The role of AUDIT VIEWER was to enable external auditors to analyze and view audited data (Casteel, 2012). The versions that were in place in the past "it was not restricted for every user to enable and disable auditing on his or her objects.”The newly introduced version made it impossible since it has advanced features.
When concluding, the emergence of Oracle 12c is an excellent relief to the customers and the users. It has enabled the capability of standardizing and automating databases that are cloud-based effectively. The two roles introduced are AUDIT VIEWER and AUDIT ADMIN.
References
Casteel, J. (2015). Oracle 12c: SQL. Cengage Learning.
Greenwald, R., Stackowiak, R., & Stern, J. (2013). undefined. O'Reilly Media.
Oracle 12c database: Administration. (2016).