Cyber-attacks have become more advanced and often take advantage of a new or known vulnerabilities that the DBA has not had the time or opportunity to deal with. Securing Oracle databases is much like securing any other system to protect sensitive data against these attacks.
Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) compliance solution provides out-of-the-box tools to secure your database assets based on your security best practices by leveraging industry and regulatory standards like the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). You can also customize security controls based on your own policies to attain the desired level of security posture.
The EM compliance solution now expands to support out-of-the-box standards for Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) v2.2.2, amalgamating threat detection and security posture management. At the fleet level, the DBSAT compliance standard enables concurrent assessment of numerous databases for vulnerabilities. DBSAT helps identify areas where database configuration, operation, or implementation introduces risks and recommends changes and controls to mitigate those risks.

EM DBSAT vulnerability checks benefit operations, security, and compliance
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Reduce operational cost by using automatic assessment of security status in the Oracle Database at scale
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Automate corrective actions to remediate violations, and improve the security posture of your Oracle Databases
- Secure configurations and limit user privileges by leveraging native reports to identify risks
The following EM DBSAT compliance standard categories can be used to assess database vulnerabilities and potential risks to safeguard and continuously monitor the database environment. This aids in creating a security strategy and knowledge base on sensitive data, configuration, and user privileges.
The Compliance dashboard provides an enterprise view of how compliant or at-risk an organization or business area is. The dashboard contains charts representing the compliance score for your EM DBSAT standard, showing the least compliant database targets.

Both the native DBSAT report and EM compliance evaluation report provide an overview of security posture which can be easily viewed by DBAs, IT management, CISO office, or auditors.


Starting with EM 13.5 release update 5, you can use the out-of-the-box DBSAT standard to associate all managed databases for concurrent security assessment of each database instance. EM generates a native DBSAT report besides its compliance evaluation report. You can use either of the reports to identify high-risk areas and remediate them to increase the security posture of each database instance as well as at scale.
EM driven sensitive data discovery and protection using DBSAT
Protecting sensitive and regulated data, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and personally identifiable information (PII), is critical amid increasing cybersecurity threats. Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) directly addresses these challenges by automating comprehensive security and sensitive data assessments across Oracle databases. Integrated natively within Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Update 11 (13.5.0.11) and later, DBSAT’s Discoverer module performs efficient, metadata-driven scans to identify and categorize sensitive data by type (e.g., financial, healthcare, personal identifiers) and precise location within database schemas, tables, and columns. Utilizing customizable, pattern-matching techniques, DBSAT in EM rapidly discovers sensitive data without directly accessing or processing actual data values, minimizing performance impact and maintaining confidentiality. Leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager, DBSAT facilitates fleet-wide automation, enabling scheduling of sensitive data assessments, detailed reporting, and continuous security monitoring across diverse Oracle environments, including single-instance databases, pluggable (PDB) databases, and Oracle RAC clusters. By providing rapid visibility and practical recommendations, Oracle Enterprise Manager DBSAT empowers security teams to proactively and continuously maintain robust protection for sensitive information across the enterprise to strengthen security posture.

Oracle Enterprise Manager with DBSAT enables automated, scalable security assessments and sensitive data protection for Oracle databases. Quickly identify vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and remediate risks across your entire database fleet. Strengthen your organization’s security posture efficiently, proactively, and at scale.
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