Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.2 new features

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.2 new features

The backup recovery components of the Audit Vault server are integrated into the AVDF product.

When the Audit Vault Agent (audit agent) restarts or AVDF upgrades are received, Audit Trail (audit trail) will start automatically.

The AVCLI component can be used noninteractive, storing the administrator's authentication information in a wallet stored in AVCLI.

The performance of host processing can be optimized using the number of processing threads for the Auidit Vault Agent (audit agent).

You can configure database In-memory to accelerate report generation.

All audit data for the newly deployed AVDF12.2 data is encrypted using TDE (transparent tablespace data encryption).

When a newly collected audit record occurs, an event that is older than the audit retention policy is immediately archived according to the retention policy.

You can modify the authentication of the WebUI of the audit Vault server and the database Firewall sever.

You can register the audit Vault agent via hostname or domain name.

You can modify the log generation level for system components.

User accounts can be unlocked through the Web UI.

Newly added built-in reports: Oracle Database Vault Report, summary reports, IRS compliance reports, reports correlate Database Audit Events W ITH OS users, used su or to sudo execute commands.

The host monitor and audit Vault agent details are added to the Host tab in the administrator's Web UI.

Audit Vault server's highly available UI interface improves usability.

Added Aix as a protected target.

The audit administrator can create a new alarm syslog template.

An audit administrator can create a database planning task to retrieve audit data and permission information from an Oracle database.

What's New in this Release

The following is new features in this release:

• A Backup and Restore Utility for the Audit Vault Server have been integrated into the product.

• Audit trails would automatically start when the Audit Vault Agent was restarted or when Oracle AVDF was upgraded.

• The AVCLI command line utility can is used non-interactively by storing a administrator ' s credentials in the AVCLI wallet .

• You can adjust the number of Audit Vault agents processing threads on a host to optimize performance.

• You can configure Oracle Database in-memory to speed up reports.

• New (full) installations of Oracle AVDF 12.2 'll has all audit data encrypted using Oracle Database Transparent data ENC Ryption (TDE).

• When new audit trails collect data which is older than limits set in the retention (archiving) policy, that data would be AU Tomatically archived according to the policy.

• You can change the certificate for the Audit Vault Server and Database Firewall Web UIs.

• You can register the hosts with a host name or a domain name.

• You can change the logging levels of system components from the Web UI.

• You can unlock user accounts from the Web UI.

• New reports has been added including:the Oracle Database Vault Report, summary reports, IRS compliance reports, and repo RTS that correlate database audit events with OS users, used su or to sudo execute commands.

• In the Administrator's Web UI, the Hosts tab has new Host Monitor details, and added Audit Vault Agent details.

• The Audit Vault Server's high availability pairing UI had been improved for usability.

• Support for IBM AIX secured targets have been added.

• The Oracle AVDF Auditor can create an alert syslog template.

• The Oracle AVDF Auditor can set a schedule for retrieval of audit data and entitlements from Oracle Database.

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.2 new features