http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:03:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re in the IT or financial business, chances are that you hear the acronym GRC being bandied about all the time. GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) is still a somewhat amorphous concept and there’s no unanimity among folks as to what exactly GRC is. You can, however, go past the ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1181 Most Oracle (as well as DB2, MySQL and MS SQL Server) DBA’s are aware of the existence of Oracle database and application security benchmarks, but tend to treat the benchmarks, which are a type of best practice lists, with somewhat of a benignly neglectful attitude. This attitude is attributable ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1177 The PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) standards, the set of requirements for the enhancement of payment data security that all credit card processors must follow, is scheduled for a revision in October 2010 (the current version is 1.2 and the new one will most likely be named the ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1225 Oracle has just announced a brand new database security product, named Oracle Database Firewall. Oracle Database Firewall is the name for the database activity monitoring capability previously offered by Secerno, the British firm, which was recently acquired by Oracle. Oracle seems to be on solid ground when it claims that ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1171 This is an age both of an unprecedented amount of data breaches as well as an age of audits and auditors that have taken a much more serious stand about financial data integrity, following debacles such as Enron.  Through internal development efforts and key acquisitions (such as Logical Apps), Oracle ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1148 When Oracle teamed with HP to introduce the first version of Exadata, the new product was positioned more as data warehouse appliance. In its second incarnation, Exadata (or rather, the Sun Oracle Database Machine – Exadata is really the storage component of the machine), Oracle has dramatically upped the ante ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1139 http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1137 Miro had a great day at the Alzheimer's Association's Polo Classic 2010 event. http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1132 One of the most common risk gaps during the lifecycle of Oracle at the enterprise is a lack of alignment. Legacy systems or architectural systems may cost extra in support year after year, but a simple change to the architecture may reduce your support costs. To give you an example, ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1129 Auto renewal on your maintenance and support agreements need to be closely monitored. It is better that you leave the auto-renewal alone, so that you are in a better position to renegotiate each year. It’s at this point that the lack of a central repository or tracking mechanism may become ... http://www.miroconsulting.com/blog/?p=1126