We've previously provided advice on the general priorities for applying EBS updates and creating a comprehensive maintenance strategy. Here are our latest...
We've previously provided advice on the general priorities for applying EBS updates and creating a comprehensive maintenance strategy. Here are our latest upgrade recommendations for E-Business Suite updates and technology stack components. These quarterly recommendations are based upon the latest updates to Oracle's product strategies, latest support timelines, and newly-certified releases. You can research these yourself using this Note: How to Find E-Business...
We've previously provided advice on the general priorities for applying EBS updates and creating a comprehensive maintenance strategy. Here are our latest upgrade recommendations for E-Business...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2018 was released on January 16, 2018. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2018 was released on January 16, 2018. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes a list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities, and links to other important documents. Supported products that are not listed in the "Supported Products and Components...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2018 was released on January 16, 2018. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is...
We are pleased to announce that Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates are now certified for use with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. Key Points...
We are pleased to announce that Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates are now certified for use with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. Key Points Elliptic Curve Cryptography supports both forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites. Apple's App Transport Security mandates forward secrecy, and we expect this to be a requirement for mobile clients. For additional information, and instructions about deploying ECC certificates with Oracle E-Business Suite Release...
We are pleased to announce that Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates are now certified for use with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. Key Points Elliptic Curve Cryptography supports both...
The use of mod_ssl is being phased in along with OpenSSL for the E-Business Suite 12.1 product line. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is migrating to...
The use of mod_ssl is being phased in along with OpenSSL for the E-Business Suite 12.1 product line. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is migrating to OpenSSL and mod_ssl technology in order to future proof the TLS implementation. OpenSSL and mod_ssl are required for TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2 and to support new cipher suites. We provided support for mod_ssl and OpenSSL in a phased approach, so that deployment can be planned methodically. Given the rate of SSL and...
The use of mod_ssl is being phased in along with OpenSSL for the E-Business Suite 12.1 product line. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is migrating to OpenSSL and mod_ssl technology in order to...
Oracle E-Business Suite is delivered with JSPs and servlets. Most customers use only a subset of these provided resources. The Allowed JSPs or Allowed Resources...
Oracle E-Business Suite is delivered with JSPs and servlets. Most customers use only a subset of these provided resources. The Allowed JSPs or Allowed Resources feature allows you to reduce your attack surface by disabling JSPs or servlets that are not used in your environment. You can allow or deny resources at the family, product or resource level. The Allowed JSPs feature allows you to define a whitelist of allowed JSPs for your Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 environment....
Oracle E-Business Suite is delivered with JSPs and servlets. Most customers use only a subset of these provided resources. The Allowed JSPs or Allowed Resources feature allows you to reduce...
The Secure Configuration Console provides a single dashboard for you to review if your Oracle E-Business Suite environment is in compliance with critical secure...
The Secure Configuration Console provides a single dashboard for you to review if your Oracle E-Business Suite environment is in compliance with critical secure configuration guidelines. You may already be familiar with the set of secure configuration scripts that can be executed in your environment to check secure configuration. The Secure Configuration Console expands on these checks providing additional features and a new user interface. You can access the Secure...
The Secure Configuration Console provides a single dashboard for you to review if your Oracle E-Business Suite environment is in compliance with critical secure configuration guidelines. You may...
We are pleased to announce a new capability that enables you to perform offline, in-place conversion of datafiles for use with Transparent Data Encryption...
We are pleased to announce a new capability that enables you to perform offline, in-place conversion of datafiles for use with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). This Fast Offline Conversion feature is now available for use with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.2 and later 12.2.x databases. What does this feature do? Fast Offline Conversion converts existing clear data to TDE-encrypted tablespaces. The encryption is transparent to the application, so code does not have...
We are pleased to announce a new capability that enables you to perform offline, in-place conversion of datafiles for use with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). This Fast Offline Conversion feature...
Support timelines for Oracle products can be tricky to understand. The time that an overall product release gets updates is governed by the dates in the Oracle...
Support timelines for Oracle products can be tricky to understand. The time that an overall product release gets updates is governed by the dates in the Oracle Lifetime Support Policies. EBS users have 12 months to upgrade to the latest Fusion Middleware component patchsets, and 24 months to upgrade to the latest database components. These are called grace periods. For dates of grace periods for specific Database or Fusion Middleware patchsets, see: Oracle Application Server...
Support timelines for Oracle products can be tricky to understand. The time that an overall product release gets updates is governed by the dates in the Oracle Lifetime Support Policies. EBS users...
A customer running E-Business Suite 12.2 recently asked whether there were any issues with running ADOP or performing other Online Patching activities over the...
A customer running E-Business Suite 12.2 recently asked whether there were any issues with running ADOP or performing other Online Patching activities over the Daylight Savings Time changeover period. The answer: no, there are no issues with running ADOP or performing any other Online Patching functions when timezone definitions change due to Daylight Savings Time. For more information about Daylight Savings Time in EBS environments, see: Complying with Daylight Saving Time...
A customer running E-Business Suite 12.2 recently asked whether there were any issues with running ADOP or performing other Online Patching activities over the Daylight Savings Time changeover period....
