Oracle Announces Audit Vault Release 10.2.3

To help organisations secure all their enterprise databases and address regulatory requirements, Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3. This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault collects audit data from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, in addition to Oracle Databases, addressing the lack of a Microsoft solution for enterprise database auditing and activity monitoring.

With Oracle Audit Vault, audit data is automatically consolidated into a highly secure, centralised repository based on Oracle’s data warehousing technology, and analysed in real-time against enterprise-defined policies. Any unauthorised activities can be immediately detected using Oracle Audit Vault’s dashboard alerts capabilities.

Oracle Audit Vault also features built-in and customisable reports to address the need for reliable compliance reporting for regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). This latest release introduces additional pre-built reports, and captures before-and-after changes to sensitive data to help organisations save time and costs related to compliance reporting.

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Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 delivers improved reporting capabilities such as filtering audit data, highlighting rows with condition values, as well as generating charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared within the enterprise or with external auditors.

Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 also increases privileged user monitoring by auditing Oracle Database Vault. By using Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Database Vault customers can now be further assured of the integrity of their preventive controls.

“Oracle Audit Vault 10.2.3 allows organisations to turn database audit data into mission-critical business intelligence for enabling enterprise security and regulatory compliance,” said Vipin Samar, vice president of Database Security, Oracle. “With this latest release, Oracle Audit Vault customers can now also monitor Microsoft SQL Server databases. Additionally, the new reporting capabilities and alerts dashboards make the product even more powerful for detecting unauthorised activities and automating critical compliance reporting functions.”