Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Mobile Application Security

This is the tenth posting in a blog series summarizing the new Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Mobile and web services functionality and recommendations for securing them.

Oracle Corporation has been building out Mobile and Smartphone applications for the Oracle E-Business Suite for a number of releases. Before release 12.2.5, this functionality was designed only for deployment through a corporate VPN, not through an Oracle E-Business Suite external node over the Internet (e.g. a server in DMZ).

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Web Services Security for Oracle Supplier Network

This is the ninth posting in a blog series summarizing the new Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Mobile and web services functionality and recommendations for securing them.

The most common use of web services with the Oracle E-Business Suite is the Oracle Suppler Network (OSN). Do not confuse OSN with the Oracle Social Network (also referred to as OSN) or when configuring OSN, do not confuse the Oracle Transport Agent (OXTA) web services with Oracle Training Administration (OTA) web services.

Guide to PeopleSoft Logging and Auditing - Revised Whitepaper

After discussions at Collaborate2017 with several PeopleSoft architects we have revised our Guide to PeopleSoft Auditing. The key change is the recommendation NOT to use PeopleSoft’s native database auditing and to instead use Oracle Fine Grained Auditing (FGA). FGA comes free with the Enterprise Edition of the Oracle RDBMS and, not only is it easier to implement, FGA does not have the performance impact of PeopleSoft’s native auditing.

Oracle Audit Trail Add Program Name

The program name attribute (V$SESSION.PROGRAM) is not by default passed to Oracle’s audit logs. It can be optionally included. To do so, apply Patch 7023214 on the source database. After the patch is applied, the following event needs to be set:

ALTER SYSTEM SET
           EVENT='28058 trace name context forever'
           COMMENT='enable program logging in audit trail' SCOPE=SPFILE;

The table below summarizes key session attributres (V$SESSION) that are passed/not passed to Oracle auditing

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Web Services Security: Authentication and Authorization

This is the seventh posting in a blog series summarizing the new Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Mobile and web services functionality and recommendations for securing them.

Once traffic is accepted and passed by the URL Firewall, WebLogic initiates the standard Oracle E-Business Suite authentication and authorization procedures. Web services are authenticated and authorized no differently than for end-users.

Oracle Listener Security New ORACLE 12.2 Firewall Feature

Service-Level ALCs is a new feature of the 12.2 Listener that allows every database service to have its own ACL. The ACL must be based on IP addresses and this feature allows multitenant pluggable databases (PDBs) to each have an ACL enforced by the Listener. This is because each PDB is a unique service registered in the Listener.

To implement this feature a new parameter FIREWALL must be used and has the following options:

Oracle Database Listener Security Guide – Rewritten For Oracle 12.2

In October 2002 Integrigy first posted a guide to securing the Oracle Listener. Since then this whitepaper has been our most popular download. This month we rewrote the whitepaper for Oracle 12c, inclusive of 12.2

Integrigy Consulting has found the Database Listener to be one of the most frequently overlooked security risks at customers. This whitepaper is an overview of the Database Listener, its unique security risks, and step-by-step recommendations for securing it are provided.

Integrigy COLLABORATE 17 Sessions - Presentations on Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft Security

Integrigy is presenting nine papers this year at COLLABORATE 17 (https://collaborate.oaug.org/). The COLLABORATE 17 conference is a joint conference for the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG), Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), and Quest International Users Group.

You can download a complete listing of Integrigy's sessions at Integrigy COLLABORATE 17 Sessions.

 

 

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