About Securing the Network

You can configure the client connection to your Oracle Database installation by following the procedures in "Configuring the Network Environment" in Configuring the Network Environment and the Oracle Database Installation Guide for your platform. In "Encrypting Data Transparently with Transparent Data Encryption", you learned how to encrypt data with a database. This section explains how you can encrypt data as it travels through the network, and also provides guidelines that you can follow to secure the network connections for Oracle Database.