Saturday, December 25, 2010

ORACLE FLASHBACK

Oracle flashback is a powerful way to access past or sometimes lost data. Please check these new tools --> Click

Oracl connectivity to Access/SQL server etc securedly

Heterogeneous Services

Oracle9i, like previous versions, supports heterogeneous services to allow data in non-Oracle database to be queried using SQL. This support has been in the form of transparent gateways, which are vendor specific, or generic connectivity which uses ODBC or OLEDB to make the connections.

The functionality supported by generic connectivity is typically more limited than that possible when using vendor specific gateways, but it is quick and simple to configure.
The steps listed below can be used to connect Oracle to any ODBC compliant database (MS Access, SQL Server etc.) on the local server: Click for More

Thursday, December 9, 2010

E-Procurement

E-Procurement process in addition to regular web security requires authentication, authorisation, confidentiality and non-repudiation. Also there can be conflicts on timings as the uploading of the documents is banned after bid-submission time. The imporant e-Procurement related security issues are summarised in the presentation --> CLICK

HOW SSL WORKS

If you want to go into technicalites, please view this link

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

IPSEC BASED SECURITY

It is often required to  restrict telnet and ftp access by IP address & Remote desktop thru IPSEC. For example if you want that a data base server can access only the app server and no other computer or the monitoring of the data base can be done by only one computer on which remote desktop is allowed. Here are the details --> Click

Vacation and Cyber Security

Summer vacations and travel plans are ON. Unfortunately, travel can open you up to many new vulnerability . It is important to strive to be ...