Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

Chapter 10. Unified Auditing

In this chapter, we will cover the following tasks:

• Enabling the Unified Auditing mode
• Configuring whether loss of audit data is acceptable
• Which roles do you need to have to be able to create audit policies and to view audit data?
• Auditing RMAN operations
• Auditing Data Pump operations
• Auditing Database Vault operations
• Creating audit policies to audit privileges, actions, and roles under specified conditions
• Enabling an audit policy
• Finding information about audit policies and audited data
• Auditing application contexts
• Purging audit trail
• Disabling and dropping audit policies

Introduction

Unified Auditing is a new feature in Oracle Database 12c, and it introduces new auditing architecture. Some of the characteristics of unified ...