Oracle 12c Unified Auditing

In Oracle 12c, a new database auditing foundation has been introduced.  Oracle Unified Auditing changes the fundamental auditing functionality of the database.  In previous releases of Oracle, there were separate audit trails for each individual component.  Unified Auditing consolidates all auditing into a single repository and view.  This provides a two-fold simplification: audit data can now be found in a single location and all audit data is in a single format.  Oracle 12c Unified Auditing supports –

• Standard database auditing
• SYS operations auditing (AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS)
• Fine Grained Audit (FGA)
• Data Pump
• Oracle RMAN
• Oracle Label Security (OLS)
• Database Vault (DV)
• Real Application Security (RAS)
• SQL*Loader Direct Load

This whitepaper discusses Oracle 12c Unified Auditing in detailed and outlines how to implement Integrigy's Auditing and Logging Framework in Oracle 12c.