Tools for Securing Your Database

To achieve the goals of securing your database, you need the following products, tools, and utilities:

• Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Enterprise Edition

  Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Enterprise Edition provides enterprise-class performance, scalability, and reliability on clustered and single-server configurations. It includes many security features that are used in this guide.

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control

  Oracle Enterprise Manager is a Web application that you can use to perform database administrative tasks for a single database instance or a clustered database.

• SQL*Plus

  SQL*Plus is a development environment that you can use to create and run SQL and PL/SQL code. It is part of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) installation.

• Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA)

  Database Configuration Assistant enables you to perform general database tasks, such as creating, configuring, or deleting databases. In this guide, you use DBCA to enable default auditing.

• Oracle Net Manager

  Oracle Net Manager enables you to perform network-related tasks for Oracle Database. In this guide, you use Oracle Net Manager to configure network encryption.