Preface

Welcome to the Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide for the 11g Release 2 (11.2) of Oracle Advanced Security.

Oracle Advanced Security contains a comprehensive suite of security features that protect enterprise networks and securely extend them to the Internet. It provides a single source of integration with multiple network encryption and authentication solutions, single sign-on services, and security protocols.

The Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide describes how to implement, configure and administer Oracle Advanced Security.

This preface contains these topics:

Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation
Conventions

Audience

The Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide is intended for users and systems professionals involved with the implementation, configuration, and administration of Oracle Advanced Security including:

Implementation consultants
System administrators
Security administrators
Database administrators (DBAs)

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documentation

For more information, refer to these Oracle resources:

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle. Refer to Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information on how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

To download free release notes, installation documentation, white papers, or other collateral, please visit the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You must register online before using OTN; registration is free and can be done at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html

If you already have a user name and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/index.html

For information from third-party vendors, refer to:

ACE/Server Administration Manual, from Security Dynamics
ACE/Server Client for UNIX, from Security Dynamics
ACE/Server Installation Manual, from Security Dynamics
RADIUS Administrator's Guide
Notes about building and installing Kerberos from Kerberos version 5 source distribution
Entrust/PKI for Oracle
Administering Entrust/PKI on UNIX
Application Environment Specification/Distributed Computing

For conceptual information about the network security technologies supported by Oracle Advanced Security, you can refer to the following third-party publications:

Applied Cryptography, Second Edition: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
SSL & TLS Essentials: Securing the Web by Stephen A. Thomas. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services by Timothy A. Howes, Ph.D., Mark C. Smith, and Gordon S. Good . Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 1999.
Understanding Public-Key Infrastructure: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations by Carlisle Adams and Steve Lloyd. Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 1999.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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