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Francis Mignault and Luc Demanche, Oracle Application Express Administration, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1958-4_4

4. Database Advanced Security

Francis Mignault and Luc Demanche2

(1)Insum Solutions, Montréal, Québec, Canada

(2)Montréal, Québec, Canada

The need to secure data is driven by an expending privacy and a dangerous world of hackers, inside threats, and people intent on stealing valuable data. Information targeted for attack has included citizen data, intellectual property, credit card data, financial information, government data, and competitive bids. Attack methodologies include hacking of privileged user accounts, exploitation of application vulnerabilities, and so on.

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