Oracle Expands Cloud Security Services at OpenWorld 2019

Oracle Expands Cloud Security Services at OpenWorld 2019
The company broadens its portfolio with new services developed to centralize and automate cloud security.

Oracle today announced new cloud security services at its annual OpenWorld conference, held this week in San Francisco. The latest additions to its portfolio are intended to eliminate some of the complexity in configuring cloud security and automate certain cloud security processes.


New services include Oracle Data Safe, Oracle Cloud Guard, and Oracle Maximum Security Zones. Oracle's focus on security isn't new, but it's now investing in helping simplify cloud security for organizations that have begun to move infrastructure and applications to the cloud.


"There's still a fair amount of confusion there," says Fred Kost, vice president of product marketing for security at Oracle. As cloud misconfigurations and data leaks continue to make headlines, companies worry about moving their most sensitive information to the cloud. Despite growing confidence in the security of cloud computing, those that have moved some processes into cloud environments hesitate to move the most business-critical apps and data.


"We're trying to make that part less risky, easier for the customer," Kost notes. While many are aware of the shared responsibility model, they're unsure what, exactly, they have to configure.


Oracle Data Safe is a "control center" intended to automate database security and give admins greater visibility into issues related to data, users, or configuration. Admins can use it to monitor database activity, find sensitive data, or mask databases. Data Safe is designed to protect Oracle Database cloud services, including the Autonomous Database released two years ago. "It's a little different in that it's focused on all of our cloud databases," says Kost, who adds that Data Safe is geared toward ..

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