Oracle Security: Top five headlines

By Mark Brunelli, News Editor 01 Mar 2008 | SearchOracle.com

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Oracle security products and Oracle security fixes are increasing in number all the time, and today's busy IT professionals don't always have time to keep up. To help out on that front, SearchOracle.com put together this quick Oracle security refresher. It includes our editors' picks for the top five most important Oracle security stories in recent memory.

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Top Oracle security headlines

1. Oracle Identity Manager adds provisioning, compliance features
Oracle's head of security and identity management development talks about the latest version of Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle's overall identity management strategy.

2. Oracle CPU to contain 51 flaw fixes
Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) will address 51 fixes for critical holes in Oracle database 10g, Application Server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise software.

3. Oracle plugs critical database, application holes
Oracle fixes critical flaws in database 10g and 9i, Application Server 10g, and E-Business Suite 11i.

4. Security guru blasts Oracle's patching policies
Oracle Security Handbook author Aaron Newman believes that Oracle should think less about adding new database security features and should instead focus on speeding up the patching process.

5. Podcast: Oracle vs. SAP -- SOA and Web services security
Oracle and SAP have been slowly getting their customers to adopt SOA and Web services.

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