Database Administration with Style!

Database Diva Presents: Security Tutorials for Overworked Oracle™ Database Administrators

About The Site

This site was originally built as the final project for my certificate in Data and Internet Security from the University of Washington. Knowing how many of my peers were so busy trying to keep up with customer demands that they were having trouble keeping up to date on other matters, including security. When I firsst started investigating the tools and techniques available for attacking Oracle databases, and the information available from the SANS organization and Pete Finnigan, I felt completely overwhelmed. How could the average DBA hope to make sense of all of this information. I decided to keep the project site online, and expand on the information, in hope of providing a resource that is easy to understand, and filled with practical advice so you aren't left wondering what to do. It is my goal to help introduce DBAs to the basics of information security, so you feel empowered, not overwhelmed. I added the blog so I could share lessons that I learn the hard way. This is partly for your benefit, and partly for mine. That way when I have the same problem a year from now, I can just search the blog. I will continue to update and expand on the tutorial sections. I will concentrate on areas that aren't already well documented, and provide links to other sites that offer similar/better information.

About Diva

I am in the 30th year of my IT career, all at the same company. I started out in Operations, which was the only job available to women in the late 1970s. Eventually I promoted to the role of system administrator. I moved back and forth between system administration and software development, with a 3 year run as a Cray analyst. In 1999 I transferred from Unix system administration to Oracle database administration. It has been my good fortune to have the opportunity to work with a lot of interesting technology, including the Oracle Application Server, Real Application Clusters, Data Guard and Distributed Transaction Processing. When I'm not engaged in battle with a recalcitrant database, I relax by running. I've completed several marathons and many half marathons and shorter races. My running blog is http://SeeDivaRun.com

Last update 10/31/2008

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