Oracle Access Governance: Simplifying deep integrations and enhancing security

October 22, 2024 | 4 minute read
Pavana Jain
Vice President, Product Management
Abhishek Juneja
Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Identity & Access Management
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Oracle continues to drive innovation, empowering organizations with cutting-edge tools to improve security and access governance. Oracle Access Governance’s latest service updates introduce key features designed to simplify integrations, enhance lifecycle management, and strengthen security practices.

Enhanced access reviews capabilities

Oracle Access Governance offers the following benefits and capabilities:

  • Ownership reviews: Organizations can now conduct the campaigns to review the ownership of identity collections, access bundles, roles, workflows, policies, and orchestrated systems defined in Oracle Access Governance. This review helps ensure that these digital assets are managed by the correct individuals, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and enhancing accountability.
Creating a review campaign with specific access.
Figure 1: Ownership reviews in Oracle Access Governance

 

  • Review of access in external systems: Oracle Access Governance allows organizations to review access permissions assigned to identities in managed systems, whether directly or from external systems. This process helps clean up unnecessary permissions and supports the adoption of Oracle Access Governance's comprehensive access control methods.

 

Choosing the permissions in the review.
Figure 2: Defining selection criteria in an access review campaign
  • Enhanced user account lifecycle management: Oracle Access Governance has extended its existing support for provisioning user accounts and permissions. With this update, lifecycle management now includes the ability to disable or delete user accounts from the managed system based on the user’s status, further streamlining access management.

Deep integrations

This update of Oracle Access Goverance can integrate with the following services and applications:

  • Oracle Fusion Apps enterprise resource planning (ERP): You now get support for Oracle Fusion Apps as both the authoritative source and the managed system. Oracle Access Governance offers deep integration with Fusion Apps by enabling business owners to manage the provisioning of Fusion Apps job roles with security context, providing granular control over the data accessible to users within the Fusion Apps environment.
Example access bundle for an accounts payable invoice.
Figure 3:  Access bundle including Oracle Fusion Apps job role and security context with value

 

  • Oracle Health EHR: Oracle Access Governance integrates with the Oracle Health EHR environment and provides full lifecycle management of user accounts within it, including operations such as creating users, updating user information, changing passwords, assigning and revoking application groups, and disabling or temporarily deactivating user accounts.
Configuring an orchestrated system with Oracle Health EHR.
Figure 4: Oracle Health EHR as an integrated system

 

  • Database-driven applications: For applications that rely on relational databases to manage identity and access data, Oracle Access Governance introduces Database Application Table (DBAT) integration. This feature allows organizations to seamlessly govern access to applications with database-driven architectures, extending Oracle’s comprehensive access management framework into these environments.
  • Extended support for external databases: Oracle Access Governance now integrates with various databases, including Oracle Database (23ai and earlier releases), Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL, SQL Server, and IBM DB2. This broad integration landscape helps organizations gain centralized control over access governance across multiple database environments running on multicloud setups.

These deep integrations enable organizations to maintain robust governance practices, centralize identity and access management, and streamline operations across a variety of systems—providing a unified approach to managing enterprise identities.

Conclusion

The latest updates to Oracle Access Governance deliver a powerful suite of features designed to streamline access management and enhance security. By utilizing capabilities like reconciled access reviews, ownership reviews, full lifecycle user account management, and deep integrations, organizations can optimize their operations, protect sensitive data, and maintain compliance with industry regulations. To learn more about how Oracle Access Governance can help your business achieve these goals, see the following resources:

Pavana Jain

Vice President, Product Management

Abhishek Juneja

Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Identity & Access Management

Abhishek Juneja is a cybersecurity enthusiast specializing in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Data Security. He currently works as a Product Manager for Oracle Identity Management services.


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