Cloud Security Perspectives and Insights
Why is Hybrid Identity and Access Management Important?
Identity and Access management (IAM) has been the main area of focus for most of my career. I have seen lots of changes over that time as trends come and go,...
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Cloud Security
Reconciling GDPR rights to Erasure and Rectification of Personal Data with Blockchain
Written By: Patrick McLaughlin, Security Architect and Oracle Fellow Introduction to the right to Erasure The EU GDPR regulation[1] provides many rights to...
Edge Security
What are the Benefits of Edge Computing Security?
As the complex functions that web applications and services perform move closer to users, there is increasing demand for the real-time processing, creation, and...
Cloud Security
Oracle is a Platinum Sponsor at RSA Conference in Singapore!
Next Generation Cybersecurity Organizations are losing the cyber war. They can no longer rely on manual threat detection and respond to address today's...
Cloud Security
Cloud Considerations: Personalizing Your Cloud Journey
Cloud adoption has become a global trend in business technology. However, security and compliance concerns are at an all-time high. Security has always been a...
Cloud Access Security
2018 Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Awards - Nominations Open
Are you transforming the way you secure and monitor your business with Oracle Cloud Security Solutions? If yes, we want to celebrate you and your success with...
Cloud Security
The Oracle Trust Fabric – Securing the Cloud Journey
“We have to reprioritize and rethink about how we defend our information. We need new systems: it can't be our people versus their computers. We're going to...
Cloud Access Security
Outsourcing Inc. Increases Visibility with Oracle Security
"As part of our business expansion, we were acquiring an increasing amount of group companies. To integrate the systems, we build a system that could...
Cloud Access Security
Marlette Funding Increases Visibility and Control Over Their Cloud Environment
IT professionals in every industry are searching to gain higher visibility and control over the use of cloud applications within their organization. This...
Cloud Access Security
Securing Multi-Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) using Oracle CASB (Webinar)
Organizations are adopting the cloud across the stack, that is, applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS). While cloud adoption started...
Cloud Access Security
If You Are Struggling With GDPR, Then You Are Not Alone
Well, it's only 5 days to go until the infamous GDPR deadline of 25th May 2018 and you can certainly see the activity accelerating. You would have thought that...
Cloud Security
Elvis has left the building! Suddenly, most of your data is in the cloud. (Replay)
Those immortal words "Elvis has left the building" struck many as the point of the night when the King of Rock would wrap his performance and leave the...
Cloud Security
Not Complying with GDPR can Mean High Risks and costs for Your Business
By Vidhi Desai, Senior Principal Product Marketing Director, Cloud GTM Security, Oracle With the May 25 deadline for the European Union’s General Data...
Cloud Access Security
FBI Tips: Building a Cybersecurity Emergency Plan
Written By: Tansy Brook Director of Product Marketing Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Google Plus Email Comment No one wants to think that their business will be...
Cloud Access Security
FBI Tips: Recommendations for Protecting Your SMB From an Attack
Written By: Tansy Brook Director of Product Marketing For small and medium size businesses (SMBs), the risk of a cyberattack is no small matter. In fact, the ...
Cloud Security
Five Critical Success Factors When Moving Identity to the Cloud
Moving your enterprise identity management to the cloud is a smart move. There are than a few compelling reasons to do so (better TCO, reduced resource costs,...
Cloud Security
Simplified SSO Experience Using Custom Secure Form-Fill Applications in Oracle Identity Cloud Service
By: Abhishek Juneja Oracle Identity Cloud Service provides Single Sign-On capabilities for SaaS and On-premise applications, which support Federated SSO using...
Cloud Access Security
FBI Cybersecurity: How SMBs Can Prevent The Next Ransomware Attack
From WannaCry to NotPetya to Bad Rabbit to LeakerLocker, it can seem like new ransomware attacks make the news weekly. In fact, those four represent just a...
Cloud Security
Key Takeaways from RSAC 2018
It has been a week since the largest cyber security conference ended, where thousands of attendees got together to discuss the latest on cyber threats,...
Cloud Access Security
New Cloud Security for Dummies Book
90% of organizations participating in the recent Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report state that at least half of their cloud data includes some form of...
Cloud Security
Understanding Your Cybersecurity Challenges and Strengths
What are the biggest cybersecurity challenges your organization experiences today? As the 2018 RSA Conference (RSAC) came to a close in San Francisco last...
Cloud Security
A Practical Path to AI Podcast Series: Podcast #9 – How AI and Cloud are Fighting Cyberthreats and Attacks
By: Kellsey Ruppel | Principal Product Marketing Director For the ninth podcast in our "Practical Path to AI" podcast series, I was joined in the studio by...
Cloud Security
FireEye Email Security Powered by Oracle Cloud
By: Bonnie Donovan | Principal Product Manager Nothing compromises trust in an organization more than a data breach. A data breach potentially places an...
Cloud Security
Extending SSO beyond your cloud apps: Quickly and Easily
In my previous post I talked about how Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) can be used to simplify single sign-on to E-Business Suite (EBS) through the use of...
The Rise of the Cloud Security Architect
The Rise of the Cloud Security Architect Greg Jensen, Sr. Principal Director - Security - Cloud Business Group, Oracle Corp. Organizations often look for where...
Cloud Access Security
How Complying with GDPR Will Help Your SMB
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. For many companies – particularly those based in or doing...
Cloud Access Security
FBI Cybersecurity: Tips for Protecting Your SMB from Email Impersonation
Written By: Tansy Brook Director of Product Marketing Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Google Plus Email Comment We’ve all received an email that seemed a...
RSA Conference 2018 kicks off to address cyber threat challenges
RSA Conference is the world's largest cyber security conference with over 30,000 attendees taking over the city of San Francisco for a week to discuss, debate,...
Cloud Security
Introducing the Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report
Today’s organizations are under increasing pressures to look for efficient ways to leverage the cloud.They are looking for the undeniable opportunities that...
Cloud Security
Cloud Security and Compliance Is a Shared Responsibility
By Gail Coury, Chief Information Security Officer, Oracle Cloud Organizations around the world are ramping up to comply with the European Union’s General Data...
Cloud Security
Oracle at RSA Conference 2018
Next week, the RSA Conference (RSAC) will take place in the tech capital of the world. Top security professionals will get together for an exciting week packed...
Cloud Security
Protect Customer Data - Your Brand Reputation Depends on it
Customer data has become one of the most valuable resources for companies in many industries. Being able to understand your customers in a multidimensional way...
News
Pragmatyxs Ensures Data Security in the Cloud with Oracle
Author: Vidhi Desai, Sr. Principal Product Marketing Director, Oracle Pragmatyxs is a leading technology consultant and systems integrator based in Seattle....
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Oracle Identity Cloud Service Accelerates Implementation at Pragmatyxs
Implementing a solution that supports your company in the present and can scale to enable your future is crucial for digital innovation. For Pragmatyxs, a...
Cloud Security
Oracle Cloud Security Days lands in Redwood Shores (April 4)
It has been one of the most talked about Oracle security event in years, and it has arrived in the "bay area" for April 4th! Oracle Cloud Security Days has...
Cloud Access Security
Cloud to accelerate compliance by 3x, improve performance of IT ops by 2x, and stop cyberattacks by 3x
A report from an independent global survey of 730 IT professionals demonstrates how cloud disrupts management, security, and compliance. Click here to read the...
Oracle at Secure Rail in Orlando, FL - April 24-25, 2018
The global railway industry is big business; you get a sense of how big when looking at this world's largest railway companies chart. The market is expected...
New Article Helps Answer Tough Cybersecurity Questions Executives Often Receive
An increasing number of reports validate what many businesses fear: cyber security threats and attacks are rising. Risk of heavy fines and a damaged brand image...
Cloud Security
How to Simplify SSO to Oracle eBusiness Suite in Just 3 Steps
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is in use by thousands of customers worldwide today. Many of those customers have implemented single sign-on (SSO) to ensure a...
Cloud Access Security
Changing Perceptions on Cloud Security
Change is often prompted by events. People tend to stick to their usual routines because it is comfortable. Every morning people drive the same route to work,...
Cloud Security
How Secure is Your Environment?
Changing environments are a fact of life for any IT professional. The widespread adoption of cloud, has increased this growth at an exponential rate. It is...
Cloud Access Security
The deadline for GDPR compliance is approaching. Are you prepared?
Written by Stephanie G. Hlavin, Senior Content Strategist Integrated Marketing, Cloud Technology, Oracle Imagine if compliance with the General Data Protection...
Cloud Security
Register Now for Oracle Cloud Security Day - New York City - March 15th
Based in the New York City area? Looking to gain insights into the threats and risks impacting your journey to the cloud and gain some hands on experiences how...
Cloud Security
2018 – Autonomy vs Automation
At OpenWorld 2017 last year (it still seems strange saying last year), Oracle announced“The world’s first Autonomous Database”. The marketing literature states:...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Three Reasons Why Identity Management Should Be On Your Radar For SaaS
Many of Oracle’s (and 3rd party) SaaS applications support key identity management capabilities, which enables them to integrate with an enterprise to deliver...
Cloud Security
2020 Future Predictions: A Look At Today's Transformative Technologies
Technology providers are always progressing, evolving, and transforming solutions to better suit the needs of a modern business. The future shows no signs of...
Cloud Access Security
Register Now: Oracle Cloud Security Day series near you!
One of the hardest objectives for customers is to find conferences that they can bring multiple members of the security team to and gain an overall perspective...
Cloud Security
Strategic Priorities for 2018 - Chief Security Officers
“Hope for the best, plan for the worst,” says Akshay Bhargava, vice president of the cloud business group at Oracle.With the rising risk of a breach, this is...
News
Oracle Releases Database Security Assessment Tool: A New Weapon in the War to Protect Your Data
LinkedIn Twitter Google Plus Email Comment Evaluate your database security before hackers do it for you! Vipin Samar, Senior Vice President, Oracle Data is a...
Cloud Security
New World, New Rules: Securing the Future State
While chasing down a domestic terrorist, FBI Agent Will Brody found himself in an unfamiliar and dangerous environment. (Brody is the protagonist in Marcus...
Configuration & Compliance
Is compliance being left to a chance?
Create your enterprise security policies once and enforce it on both old and new IT. This is autonomous and keeps updating itself with new and changing...
Cloud Security
Machines Vs. Machines - How Adaptive Intelligence Can Save You From a Breach
As we begin a new year, transitioning to hybrid environments is a top priority for many companies. While there are many questions surrounding the cloud...
Cloud Access Security
Oracle Product Rollout Underscores Need for Trust in the Cloud
On the heals of our big news at this year's Gartner IAM Summit in Vegas, DarkReading's Kelly Sheridan sat down with Oracle's Vice President of Oracle Identity...
Cloud Security
Top 5 Reasons to Move 'Security' to the Cloud
As organizations move workloads and infrastructure to the cloud, legacy security solutions are not adequate to detect and prevent today’s modern threats. Cyber...
Not Everything Scary Yells "BOO!"
While we celebrate Halloween, it is hard not to extrapolate some of the spookiness to what we encounter in real-life cybersecurity scenarios. Check out the blog...
Cloud Security
Watch Larry Ellison demo the machine learning in action for the "Automated Cyber Defense"
Learn more on this blog, read the press release , and visit the website
OpenWorld '17 Security At a Glance - Wednesday
Oracle OpenWorld really started to kick into high gear on Tuesday as excitement started to build for Larry’s afternoon address on CyberSecurity. Attendees were...
Cloud Security
Machine learning based automated cyber defense platform: Security Monitoring & Analytics
Security Monitoring and Analytics is built on a strong machine learning platform, the same platform that powers the autonomous database with automated...
Cloud Access Security
The Shift to Secure Data in the Cloud with CASB
Last year, we shared an IDC Whitepaper “Identity-as-a-Service on the Journey to the Cloud” that highlighted the characteristics of these 4 “journeys”. ...
Cloud Security
Oracle's Larry Ellison takes on Splunk
Many legacy SIEM solutions are not delivering on their promise. Most legacy solutions like Splunk, just send a lot of false positives. It lacks the key data...
Oracle Announces: Industry’s First Intelligent Security and Management Suite
Today at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison spoke to attendees about two new cloud security solutions that we are officially announcing in today’s Press Release...
Cloud Security
Oracle's new machine learning to drive "Continuous Compliance"
Oracle is announcing a major update to its strong management cloud platform, called Oracle Configuration and Compliance (OCC) Cloud Service. It is an...
Cloud Security
OpenWorld '17 Security At a Glance - Tuesday
Monday got off to a tremendous start as many of the attendees got their first new look at the expanded Moscone Center. Oracle’s new expo hall “The Exchange”...
Cloud Security
OpenWorld '17 Security At a Glance - Monday
It was an exciting Sunday to kick off Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Thousands came together to see the newly revamped Moscone Center and to check in for their...
Cloud Security
Oracle's machine learning to detect and remediate misconfigurations and violations
Let's not worry about North Korea, China, or Russian NationState hackers until you got your basic security configurations right. Verizon's DBIR 2017 report says...
Cloud Security
Welcome to Oracle OpenWorld 2017
Welcome to Oracle OpenWorld 2017! There has never been a more exciting time for Oracle’s customers to hear from our leadership, solution experts and partners...
Cloud Security
Security is a risk management problem, not a technology problem. Toss your SIEM out
You have all the traditional tools. If they are not helping you with the one thing that it was supposed to do ie.. to keep your company out of the headlines for...
Configuration & Compliance
Watch Oracle's BIG security session at OpenWorld 2017
Oracle's big commitment to security is here. We have a complete portfolio of cloud-based security solutions to secure both your old and new IT. It is built on a...
Cloud Access Security
Oracle is BIG on security this year at OpenWorld 2017
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 is right around the corner. It is bigger and better than ever before and Oracle is going all in on Security this year. Oracle has...
Cloud Security
GDPR – it’s all about technology and fines, isn’t it? by Paul Toal
Unless you are new to my blog posts, you will know that I spend most of my time talking to organizations about security, whether that is data security, cloud...
Cloud Security
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 to Showcase the Largest Number of Security Sessions
Security pros will have no shortage of new technologies and information to explore at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, from behavior analytics (BA) and machine learning...
Cloud Security
Can you trust your cloud provider?
by Paul Toal “Trust is like the air we breathe-when it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.” This quote from Warren Buffett is...
Prevent the next big cloud mis-configuration data breach with CASB technology
Many enterprises today use cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service platforms to host their important business applications and...
Leverage, Extend, Innovate: A journey to managing identities in the cloud
One of the early adopters of our Identity Cloud Service is a leading telecom provider in Asia-Pacific, operating the largest mobile, fixed line and broadband...
Cloud Security
The SOC Is Dead…Long Live the SOC by Dan Koloski
The traditional security operations center can't deal with present reality. We must rethink the concept in a way that prepares for the future. I recently...
Cloud Security
Take Responsibility For Your Cloud Data Before An Attacker Does - by Paul Toal
As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, I spend a significant amount of my time talking to customers about their Cloud strategy, explaining to them about...
Cloud Security
Oracle Named a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide
This has been an exciting 2017 for Oracle's Cloud Security team. After achieving the leadership position in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity...
Cloud Security
Oracle, a security company? - InfoSec Europe 2017 - by Paul Toal
A couple of weeks ago I spent 3 days exhibiting at InfoSec Europe 2017 in London, an event I have been attending as either an exhibitor or visitor for a number...
Cloud Security
Press Release: Oracle Continues Innovation and Expansion of Cloud Security Offerings
Building on the positive response to its Identity-based Security Operation Center (SOC) cloud services, Oracle today announced a series of developments that...
Cloud Security
Press Release: Customers Rapidly Adopting Oracle’s New Security Cloud Services
There has been tremendous growth across the Oracle Cloud, including how Oracle enables organizations to secure and manage from the cloud. Within the first 6...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Oracle Named as a Leader in Gartner IGA Magic Quadrant for Fourth Straight Year
For the fourth year in a row, Oracle has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Magic Quadrant. This report is a full...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Gartner Peer Insight: Please Write a Review!
Have you deployed an Oracle solution in the past 2 - 3 years? If so, why not share your experience and knowledge with others and write a review! Did you know...
Cloud Access Security
CASB Enables Complete Visibility for Levi Strauss & Co by John Yun
Oracle's acquisition of Palerra was not only designed to bring an enable Oracle to offer a Cloud Security Access Broker to our customers, but to bolster the...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Outsourcing Inc. Standardizes on Oracle Identity Cloud Service
Recently, Oracle and Outsourcing Inc. have partnered to provide next-generation security and identity management on a cloud platform, designed to support the...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Are You Going to be ‘Where the World Talks Security’ (aka, RSA)? by Criss Marshall
The 2017 RSA Conference is three short weeks away and Oracle is going to be there in force discussing whether cloud security is an evolution or revolution, why...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Best Practice Approach for Planning your IAM Project by Paul Toal
I was recently asked to provide some best practice advice for Identity Management projects. This got me thinking and led me to write down some recommendations....
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Oracle Introduces Identity-Centric Cloud Security with Identity SOC by Rohit Gupta
New Challenges Require Identity-Centric Security In a 2016 Cloud Security Research Report by Crowd Research Partners, 91% oforganizations have security concern...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Announcing global availability of Identity Cloud Service!
We announced a few weeks ago about the imminent availability of the Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) - Oracle's comprehensive Identity and Access Management...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Last Chance to Register: IDCS Launch Webcast
This is your last chance to register for tomorrow's webcast on the new Identity Cloud Service! Extending our leadership in Identity and Access Management,...
Hiding in Plain Sight: How a CASB with Built-In UBA Unmasks Insider Threats
by Kyong An With a new threat landscape brought on by cloudpervasiveness and BYOD, many CISOs focus on external threats and overlook themost active threat to...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Requirements for Modern Cloud Security with Peter Barker
Join Oracle's Troy Kitch, as he interviews Peter Barker, Oracle's SVP of Identity and Security Products. In this interview, Peter will outline his perspectives...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Secure Defense in Depth using IDCS
Secure Defense in Depth using IDCS This is the fourth of a four-part series of blogs that started with anoverview of Identity Cloud Service and is now focused...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Security @ Oracle OpenWorld - Planning Your Week
Oracle OpenWorld 2016 (September 18 - 22) is delivering moreOracle Security content and expert sessions than ever before. It features morethan 35 Identity...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Open and Standards based Application Integration using IDCS
This is the third of a four-part series of blogs that started with an overview of Identity Cloud Service and is now focused on providing more insights into each...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Register Now: Oracle Identity Cloud Service - Launch Webcast
Extending our leadership in Identity and Access Management, Oracle announces Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), a comprehensive secure, open, and hybrid identity...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Focus on Oracle Security @ Oracle OpenWorld 2016
Oracle OpenWorld 2016 is the year's best opportunity for connecting with colleagues and solution experts / leadership. Planning ahead now will enable you to get...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Oracle Identity Cloud Service Enabling Cloud Application Access
While we all may not be using "Fluffy" as our password, we can all appreciate the challenges that users tend to run into when multiple individual applications...
Hybrid-Cloud Identity
Enabling Hybrid Identities across Cloud and On-premises applications using IDCS
This is the second of a four-part series of blogs that started with an overview of Identity Cloud Service and now focused on providing more insights into each...