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Oracle Database Security Central

Database security remains fragmented across disconnected tools and manual processes, leaving excessive privileges, misconfigurations, and sensitive data exposure unaddressed. Compliance teams spend significant time assembling audit evidence because critical insight is scattered across databases.

Oracle Database Security Central fills this gap by unifying database security across the fleet. It provides a unified view of risk, sensitive data, policy governance, activity monitoring, and SQL threat prevention in one command center. Correlate insights across users, data, and systems to prioritize remediation and maintain continuous compliance at fleet scale.

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Why Oracle Database Security Central

  • Unified visibility into users, data, and risk

    See who has over-privileged risky access, where sensitive data resides, and which databases have drifted from approved security baselines. Map findings to common frameworks and reporting requirements, including CIS, DISA STIG, and GDPR, and focus remediation on the issues that increase exposure.

  • Unified policy management across the fleet

    Create, standardize, and enforce audit, alerting, Database Vault, Database Firewall, and SQL Firewall policies from one the central console. Reduce policy variance, simplify administration, and maintain consistent controls from deployment through decommissioning.

  • Stop malicious SQL before it reaches the database

    A patented grammar-based engine inspects SQL structure, not just patterns. Apply fine-grained trusted-path, source, and user context to block SQL injection, exfiltration attempts, and unauthorized access across Oracle and non-Oracle databases.

  • Built for your database fleet

    Support Exadata, RAC, and ADG, and deploy on premises, in OCI, AWS, or Azure with agent, agentless, and proxy collection models. Deploy as a preconfigured software appliance designed to scale with your fleet.

What you can do with Oracle Database Security Central

Oracle Database Security Central adds broader visibility across user risk, sensitive data, configuration posture, and policy governance to the proven activity monitoring and protection foundation of Audit Vault and Database Firewall. Security teams now get one unified view of what is happening, where exposure exists, and what to remediate first.

User360: see risky users and entitlement drift

Identify privileged and high-risk users, trace direct and indirect access paths, surface dormant accounts, and focus reviews on the access that creates the most exposure.

Data360: find and classify sensitive data consistently

Discover sensitive data across production, test, development, and reporting environments. Classify data based upon table metadata and actual data. In addition to supporting 181 sensitive types across 20 categories, support custom sensitive-data types, and apply consistent classification across the fleet.

Configuration360: track posture drift against baselines

Define baseline security settings, detect configuration drift continuously, and prioritize findings by risk and impact. Map results to CIS, DISA STIG, and GDPR, and maintain audit readiness across the fleet.

Audit360: Activity auditing, reporting, and alerts

Comprehensive activity auditing across Oracle and non-Oracle databases, operating systems, directories, and custom sources. Investigate with out-of-the-box reports, interactive filters, and integrate with SIEM and BI tools. Leverage policy-based alerts with precise thresholds to identify suspicious behavior.

Unified policy management to enforce consistent controls

Create, standardize, and enforce audit, alerting, Database Vault, Database Firewall, and SQL Firewall policies from one console. Reduce policy variance and simplify full lifecycle policy administration across the estate.

SQL-aware firewall defense

A patented grammar-based firewall engine inspects SQL structure across your entire database fleet, applying multi-stage policy controls on source, program, and user context to block SQL injection and exfiltration at the perimeter. Oracle AI Database 26ai's native SQL Firewall can enforce a trusted baseline inside the kernel, blocking deviations in real time.

Security Control Center to prioritize what matters most

Bring together signals from user access, sensitive data, configuration posture, and activity in one view. See where risks overlap and prioritize remediation based on combined exposure, not isolated findings. Standardize security controls across the estate.

Continuous compliance and forensic reporting

Use prebuilt reports for GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, IRS 1075, and UK DPA to reduce manual evidence collection. Map assessment findings to CIS and DISA STIG, schedule assessments, attest results, and maintain continuous audit readiness.

Gen-AI powered AI advisor

Query user activity, risk, and compliance posture through natural language using the Database Security Central AI Advisor and Assistant. Receive step-by-step guidance for security configuration and management, and define alert conditions in natural language automatically translated into structured policy logic.

What leaders gain from Oracle Database Security Central

CISOs

See database risk across the fleet, prioritize remediation, and support audit and compliance reporting with more defensible evidence.



Security teams

Correlate user risk, sensitive data, posture, and activity to focus on the exposures that matter most.



Database operations leaders

Standardize controls, reduce access and configuration drift, and cut manual effort across the estate.



Compliance teams

Maintain more consistent evidence, reduce manual report assembly, and sustain audit readiness across large database estates.



Existing Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) customers

Existing AVDF customers can download patch number 39197299 from My Oracle Support and follow the documented out-of-place upgrade procedure to move to Oracle Database Security Central.

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AUGUST 4, 2026

Announcing Oracle Database Security Central: Full-Spectrum Database Risk Visibility and Security at Fleet Scale

Nazia Zaidi, Lead Product Manager, Database Security Central, Oracle

AI-accelerated threats can expose vulnerabilities and exploit excessive privileges in minutes, while fragmented tools leave organizations without a clear view of database risk. Oracle Database Security Central unifies security posture, user risk, sensitive data exposure, and compliance insights across database environments—and is available to eligible customers at no additional cost through February 28, 2027.

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