Database security is critical to the enforcement of internal controls and security processes. Organizations traditionally have invested in IT security technology to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to private information or restricted IT services and data. Over the past few years, the scope and importance of security technologies in general, and access rights management in particular has drastically grown. Oracle databases are the most important assets of an organization infrastructure. Oracle access rights management is a massive task for database administrators. It is an effective control to implement organizational access policies and safeguard organizational information assets.
Oracle Access Rights Auditor facilitates auditors and IT security professionals to evaluate security controls and identify access rights granted to users are defined on the principles of need to know and least privileges or not. This is a fundamental check to find out who is allowed to access the database, from where and when. Oracle database access privileges should be defined for those with a business need, define what information resources should be available for individual or group of user and define trusted and un-trusted networks within and outside the organization.