Oracle Data Safe - A Beginner's Guide

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Oracle Data Safe

Security is essential when you are moving databases to Cloud. That’s where Oracle Data Safe comes in.

Here’s a simple breakdown for anyone new to it:

🌟 What is Oracle Data Safe?

Oracle Data Safe is a cloud-native security service that helps you monitor and protect your Oracle databases. It gives you a single console to analyze risks, monitor activities, mask data, and audit your databases.

🌟 Where Can You Use Oracle Data Safe?

Oracle Data Safe is primarily designed for Oracle Databases only — that includes:

• Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS)
• Autonomous Database
• Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer
• Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud
• On-Premise Oracle Databases (with hybrid setup)

At this point, Data Safe does not support non-Oracle databases or any third-party databases.

🛠️ How to Enable Data Safe on an Oracle Database?

Pre-requisites:

Create a database account (DATASAFE$ADMIN) in the database and grant necessary privilege.

Login to OCI Console & navigate –

Download the "privilege script" highlighted above & run it on the database to grant necessary privs to DATASAFE$ADMIN account.

You may customize the security list from the drop down, but for this demo, I’m keeping it minimal.

Monitor the database security from Assessment resources.

Thank You!