Security

Oracle Data Redaction or how to hide critical information

Oracle Data Redaction: What It Is and How to use it. A quick example usage case.

SQL FIREWALL

This blog comes to complete the excellent blog written by my colleague Gregory Steulet on the same topic. SQL FIREWALL is a new security layer integrated into Oracle Database 23c. First, we create a admin user(…)

Swiss Cloud Native day landed at the Gurten!

On the 21st of September this year, we attended the Swiss Cloud Native Day. I was accompanied by two of my colleagues, Arnaud Berbier and Christoph Bernhard. This event took place for the third time, and this year,(…)

Oracle to the rescue of MGM with SQL Firewall?

Introduction It is true that it’s a somewhat daring title, and it’s unlikely that SQL firewall has changed anything about the attack that several casinos in Las Vegas suffered last week. However, the opportunity was too good to(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Use vault to protect passwords

JBoss EAP simplifies a lot of server configuration by consolidating all subsystem configurations into a single XML file (standalone.xml or domain.xml). This, however, can expose sensitive information to any user that has access to the configuration files. For example, datasource(…)

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2023 – Day 3

Today is the last day of conferences. It is unexpected but I get fitter and fitter as I walk between 4 and 5 kilometre each day from one session to another. The RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre is huge and(…)

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2023 – Day 1

Day 0 warm up! We arrived yesterday with my colleague Arnaud Berbier in Amsterdam for the KubeCon / CloudNativeCon but also the first CiliumCon 2023. All those events are grouped together. Thank you dbi services for this very great(…)

AWS re:Invent day 2: All about Lakes

As usual the day 2 with Adams Selipsky’s keynote is where most announcements are done…and they have been severals. As you will probably see plenty of articles about these, and by the way I recommend you to take few(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2(…)

SQL Server Security: Check if the guest is active on all user-databases through the CMS

Today, a customer asks me to have look on each SQL Server instance to control if the user-database Guest is active or not. The easiest way is to go through the CMS (Central Management Servers) with a query but(…)