Oracle Advanced Security provides strong authentication and encryption by implementing industry standard encryption and integrity algorithms as well as supporting several external authentication services. Oracle Advanced Security provides robust enterprise user security. Organizations have a choice of implementing end-to-end security by authenticating users using digital certificates or passwords, reducing the total cost of deploying security.
Secures all communications with the Oracle database.
Provides secure single sign-on for users to benefit from ease-of-use and strong authentication.
Scales to centrally manage tens of thousands of enterprise users on a central directory service rather than repeatedly managing users on individual databases.
Delivers a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to Oracle customers.
Data encryption and integrity to ensure the privacy of communications over any protocol into the Oracle database.
Strong authentication services such as Kerberos, biometrics and RADIUS-compliant smart cards
Secure Single Sign-On with digital certificates over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and integration with LDAPv3-compliant directory services.
Centrally managed enterprise users and authorizations on a central directory service, instead of managing individual users in each database.
Per CPU licensing shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a Processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users.