Oracle Incident Response and Forensics (eBook)

Pete Finnigan is the founder and CEO of PeteFinnigan.com Limited, a company based in York, UK that specializes in helping customers secure data held in their Oracle databases. He has assisted customers all over the world in performing security audits of their Oracle databases. He also has assisted clients with Oracle incident response and forensics, and design and implementation work on Oracle features such as Virtual Private Database (VPD), encryption, masking, and many more services. Pete also provides very popular detailed training on many aspects of Oracle Security. He has spoken many times at conferences around the world on the subject of Oracle security.

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Take the right steps when a breach of your Oracle Database environment becomes known or suspected. You will learn techniques for discerning how an attacker got in, what data they saw, and what else they might have done. This book helps you understand forensics in relation to Oracle Database, and the tools and techniques that should be used to investigate a database breach. You will learn the measures to put in place now to make it harder for an attack to be successful, and to aid in the detection and investigation of future attacks. You will know how to bring together tools and methods to create a holistic approach and investigation when an event occurs, helping you to be confident of your ability to react correctly and responsibly to threats against your organization's data. What You'll LearnDetect when breaches have or may have occurredReact with confidence using an organized planDetermine whether a suspected breach is real Determine the scope of data that has been compromisedPreserve evidence for possible criminal prosecutionsPut in place measures to aid future investigationsWho This Book is ForDatabase administrators, system administrators, and other technology professionals who may be called upon to investigate breaches of security involving Oracle Database