Jim Smith

Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager, Oracle Security

Recent Blogs

Announcing OCI VSS Integration with Qualys

Are you sure that your OCI Compute instances are being scanned? Do you worry that instances are slipping through the cracks and not monitored by your scanning agents? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning Service has offered native OCI compute instance scanning since its initial release-- now we are offering an integrated Qualys option for customers to leverage their Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) license.

Announcing New Vulnerability File Scanning with OCI VSS

Enhancements have been made to the file scanning options and vulnerability details included in OCI Vulnerability Scanning Service (VSS). The beginning of the year we released an update to OCI VSS that scans Java applications on your compute instances and alerts you if they contain the troubled versions of the Log4j and Spring4Shell jars (Java Archive files).

Identifying Vulnerabilities in Cloud Container Images

OCI Vulnerability Scanning Service (VSS) has offered container image scanning via the Oracle Container Image Registry (OCIR) console since its launch in March 2021. We have now enabled customers the choice to turn on container image scanning inside VSS for every repository in a compartment with just one check box.

Detecting Vulnerabilities In The Cloud? We Have You Covered

In this blog post we'll cover IDC’s recently published brief “Detecting Vulnerabilities with Cloud Native Security“.

Identify Weaknesses and Prevent Attacks with Oracle Cloud ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Vulnerability Scanning Service (VSS) provides a simple, on by default, prescriptive, and free scanning suite that is tightly integrated with the OCI platform. The scanning service provides default plugins based on open-source scanning engines for host and container image scanning (see Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry OCIR about enabling container image scanning). The new service will manage the deployment, configuration and upgrade of these engines and agen...

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