For years companies have had to guess whether their DBAs were avoiding the temptation to run a few SELECTS on confidential financial information. After all, who doesn’t occasionally wonder what their manager is making?
And I’ve seen at least one case where it happened deep in the heart of Texas. Of course the person had also made the mistake of saving the information on their hard-drive. Not good…
After the ENRON debacle and the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements there has been a greater emphasis in companies on maintaining separation of duties (SOD) including those at the database level. Thus the introduction of Oracle Data Vault.
Data Vault manages the SOD within the database to restrict “highly-privileged user” aka DBA’s from viewing information that is restricted. Using Data Vault, owner of the “realm” (sounds very royal doesn’t it?) gets to decide who, what and when for their data.
For the thousands of Oracle E-Business Suite users, this announcement will be of interest since it offers the first time they’ve been able to use Data Vault for E-Business Suite. It will also improve their ability to have the right answers during the next SOX audit.
The particulars are that Oracle Database Vault 10gR2 10.2.0.3 is now certified with the E-Business Suite Release 11i.
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