Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Propagating Middle-Tier and Application Users to the DBMS (Part 3 of 3)
Well, finally I’m writing the third part of the blog. The thing that pushed me to finish this was a talk I had with Tim Hall of Oracle-base fame after his Unconference presentation in Oracle OpenWorld. Tim told me that his Java developers are claiming that adding user context information in an already existing application [...]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Oracle CPUs - Do We Care?
I promised to blog a bit about my traveling, so here I go:
I was visiting customers in India and the US and giving presentations to Oracle user groups in the US. Amazingly, the state of US airports is just getting worse every month. Flying from Israel to India and from India to NY went without [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in DBA, Oracle, compliance, patching by Slavik
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Hedgehog: New Database Security Solution
This is a personal as well as a commercial posting for me… Tomorrow is a special day in the short history of my company - after long months of R&D, we are finally releasing our product, named Hedgehog (there’s already some coverage in Dark Reading). These are very exciting times both for me personally and [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Oracle, monitoring, security by Slavik
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
So what really happened at TJX?
What better way to start a blog about database security than to discuss what is possibly the biggest data breach ever?
It now seems that several banks are suing TJX over claimed losses of tens of millions of dollars - so negligence in data protection carries a cash penalty, not just nebulous damage to reputation. Gross [...]