Oracle Audit Vault to Assist Enterprises
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 8, 2007

The Oracle Audit Vault has been made available to help enterprises address the regulatory requirements and insider threat concerns. The enterprise-class audit consolidation and management solution is built on the Oracle Database infrastructure software.

With numerous regulatory mandates and growing concerns about insider threats, enterprises are utilizing database audit as a security measure, enforcing the trust-but-verify principle.

The solution delivers an in-depth and comprehensive view of audit data pulled from the database. It aids in ensuring the integrity of this information and reduces the cost of compliance by making it easier for auditors and security personnel to manage and report on this data.

Using the product, organizations can consolidate audit silos across their enterprise and securely house the audit data in a single location. Additionally, Oracle Audit Vault's alerting capability assists organizations in detecting unauthorized access early, helping mitigate risk and potential financial liabilities.

Oracle Audit Vault is a key solution within the company's comprehensive governance, risk and compliance offering, incorporating the company's leading data warehouse, partitioning and security products. Organizations can use the solution to centrally manage their database-auditing configuration, making it easier to deploy consistent, uniform audit policies.

Additionally, customers can take advantage of Oracle Audit Vault's open data warehouse schema and generate reports from their audit repository using the business intelligence (BI) tool of their choice, including Oracle BI Publisher or other third-party reporting tools.

Oracle Audit Vault presents Systems Integrators (SIs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and consulting companies with an opportunity to add value to their existing services and solutions. SIs can incorporate the product into their consulting and risk management practices while ISVs can embed Oracle Audit Vault into their product portfolios to help their customers mitigate insider threats and rapidly comply with regulatory requirements.

"With legislative mandates and security threats on the rise, it is increasingly important for organizations to adopt and implement comprehensive protection and compliance initiatives," said Trent Henry, senior analyst of Burton Group, in a news release. "Given the critical information at stake, database auditing and monitoring solutions are fundamental for today's environment because they serve a dual purpose -- helping streamline audit reporting while improving an organization's overall security."

"Today more than ever, organizations face a complex web of mandates that impact overall business processes as well as IT strategies," said Vipin Samar, vice president (Database Security) of Oracle.

The vault can streamline audit requirements associated with regulations across a number of industries, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard.

Oracle Audit Vault Server is priced at $50,000 per processor and the Oracle Audit Vault Collection Agent is available for $3,000 per processor. Oracle Audit Vault currently consolidates and manages audit data from Oracle Database 10g Release 2, Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database Release 2.