# Oracle Advanced Security Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Database Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-security) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About Oracle Advanced Security Oracle Advanced Security provides two important preventive controls to protect sensitive data at the source: encryption and redaction. Together, these two controls form the foundation of Oracle's defense-in-depth, multi-layered database security solution. ## Oracle Advanced Security Reviews ### 1. Oracle advance security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TAUSHIF R. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** The best part i like that is he is providing a advance security for allthe parts like software and payment and password area not to able to share the details outside **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** It can be a more updated to a high security so that the people can't been ofset and it can be more faster for updated the high security package for all of the solution **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is providing the solution of advanced security which so many platforms are not providing and we all are aware that it's a big platforms of this and has a lot of data ### 2. Reduces the risk of data breaches **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank P. | Software Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Data encryption for columns and tables is the most valuable feature. We are also getting the benefit of detection data. If I want to share data with another Oracle user then the data sharing is automatically detected. We don't need to modify anything. This is a complete security solution and all of the features that we are using are available off the shelf. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** The process of encrypting a single column is straightforward, but encrypting the entire table requires more effort and takes longer to complete, Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this product to encrypt data within our Oracle database, protecting confidential information. Encrypting column information is one option, but we can also encrypt entire tables. Using this product allows us to encrypt both confidential company data and personal data within our database. ### 3. Oracle Data Security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit K. | Subject Matter Expert (SME) / P2P / O2C / Italian language / VMD / CMD ( SAP user), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** The veriety of security solutions that Oracle data security provides. It provides a high protection to your data against the theft and attack. It gives you deep control rules just to ensure everyone access only the required data. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Nothing as such. If you know the control rules you may have better command and you may protect data better. Since there are veriety of protection, so it gives opportunity to explore and learn. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** I would recommend but the only thing is you need to hire skilled people to handle this. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I believe the only thing to have a better control you need to have skilled people and you will find how helpful is Oracle data security. I used it to improve compliance and risk management. ### 4. Oracle database feature that helps you maintain security on your Oracle database server **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luís S. | Oracle DBA || Oracle Cloud || AWS || System Administrator || DevOps || Security analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Vault feature alonside with the TDE feature **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** It requires Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, which turns out to highly increase costs **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** Shall you want to further enhance the security in Oracle Database, you sure must have Oracle Advanced Security. If you are only looking for TDE capabilities, you may as well look for Oracle SE edition on Oracle Cloud Infraestructure which has TDE by default and turns to be much cheaper. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us to keep data encrypted at tablespace level by using TDE feature ### 5. Oracle Advanced security is a Oracle managed service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Specialist - Cloud and Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** It is easy to integrate and decouple Oracle advanced security with various Oracle services and basically Oracle Rac clusters. In general, the security feature is available to almost all the oracle managed services. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Pricing of few of the features of Oracle advanced security is on the higher side making it costly for many budget-oriented customers and business owners in the industry. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** It is a good product/approch but need to monitor continously for usage. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle advanced security is being used for applying the modern security approach to oracle databse and other applications which can enhance the security of databases for customer facing applications. ### 6. Oracle data encryption utility **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** saket a. | Senior Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** It helps in the encryption of confidential data present in the columns and tables. Data can be easily shared with any other Oracle user using data detection feature. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** The encryption of data of a single column is easy to achieve but the encryption of data at table level is not straightforward to achieve and it is a time consuming process. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very useful for encrypting data at different levels in the Oracle database. I am using it to encrypt personally identifiable information like name, date of birth etc. present inside the database. ### 7. Up to the mark security **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushant D. | Business Intelligence Engineer - 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** The overall security is up to the mark. Tested for multi access and multi role usecases, works satisfactory **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** User friendliness is one aspect to look upon. Moreover the pricing is on the higher than the competitors in the domain. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** Go for it **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data security against the vulnerable attacks like ddos. SPI data masking. Highly sensitive data protection. ### 8. Very stable and full of features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iván P. | Senior Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** The large amount of products within Oracle Advance Security package **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Learning curve is too high for the same reason: a lot of products and features **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my company we require a security layer all centralized within a single solution ### 9. Best Database Security in Market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit G. | Senior manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** It can redact data which prevents large scale extraction of sensitive data and privacy info **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** I do not see any downsides of using this till now **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** For database protection anyone must try this software it has advanced encryption **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It encrypts application tablespaces to prevent access of sensitive data from outside world ### 10. Good for Oracle DB users, not for others **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hoa D. | Technical Sales - IBM Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Adding security features for customers who are using Oracle DB **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Not support for many other DB types and require to enable audit logs which consume a lot performance **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** data loss and DB attacks like SQL injection, brute-force attack... ### 11. Review for Oracle Advanced Security **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Oracle Advanced Security guards the intrusion from hackers in the best possible manner by taking out the IP which seems to be suspicious based on the hits. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** It doesn't provides a graph about the number of hits which had incorrect login details. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in detection of any kind of intrusion or any kind of false attempts made to breach the database integrity and take over the knowledge about the columns and rows in it. ### 12. Oracle Advanced security among top reliable security tools. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Developers are not required to write anything extra to encrypt the data, Oracle Advanced Security provides encryption at the database kernel level. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Lack of fundamental explanation on how it works in backend so that it could provide more confidence to new developers. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me to secure data by data redaction and encryption at rest. ### 13. Database Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** It helps to keep the enterprise data safe and secure, multiple phishing attacks were stopped using it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** We can't configure it in easy steps, expert guidance is required for its maitenance **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Stopping Phishing attacks 2. Stopping Data Breach 3. Lesser downtime ### 14. Oracle advanced security for database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** It is helpful in encrypting and protecting the data **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Cost is a little higher than compared to others **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** I'll recommend to use it as it is very helpful **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping in encrypting the data and protecting sensitive data. ### 15. Data protection with Oracle TDE and Masking **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devbrat C. | Database Architect, Senior Oracle Database Administrator, Lead Oracle DBA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Oracle Advanced Security features - Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Masking are very easy to implement and provides a great level of security of business critical and user sensitive data. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** There are very less cons but little enhancement is required for easiness of implementation for In-transit data encryption method. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our project, we have implemented TDE fo encryption and masked user sensitive data like Name, address, phone number, payment card details etc to protect from misuse of data and to be compliant with GDPR policies. ### 16. 15 Years of DBA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zurab M. | OCP - Oracle Database Administrator (DBA), Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** In my organization, I have implemented Transparent Data Encryption in Oracle and several hardening requirements and have achieved PCI DSS compliance. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** There is not something to disklike. **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Encryption problems ### 17. Oracle Advanced Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** Like the TDE concept with the secure storage keys **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Would like the solution to be a integral product for the storage of keys and credentials **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** May want to consider a solution that does Data in Motion encryption as well and not just Data at Rest **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing critical DB instances ### 18. Advanced Security **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** We use Oracle Advanced Security Option for the database and it helps encrypt and protect data. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Looking more in the Cloud to Build all the security model **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Advanced Security:** It will be helpfule to handle the data security **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have highly secure data and it help a lot ### 19. Review for Database Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** The option redaction on Oracle 12c helps me. **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** Rman backup doesn't make wallet backup on backup database **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sensitive columns on my database like passwords, salary and drugs recipes. ### 20. TDE is nice feature **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Advanced Security?** encryption of tablespace for oracle database , **What do you dislike about Oracle Advanced Security?** so far all look good only maintenance is hard **What problems is Oracle Advanced Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** security issue from our ISO - [View Oracle Advanced Security pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-advanced-security/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-06+00%3A49%3A39+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=47746ef1-52d4-4ee1-b9dc-15d238183b79&secure%5Btoken%5D=324ef4d08806937b0740c3f49090e719f602d9cda425128b3517c5f2c99a49dc&format=llm_user) ## Oracle Advanced Security Features **Data Masking** - Sensitive Fields - Dynamic Masking - Static Masking - Consistent Masking - Random Masking **Administration** - Supported Databases - Data Management - Logging and Reporting - API / integrations **Encryption** - Email Encryption - Messaging Encryption - File Transfer Encryption - Data Encryption - Document Encryption - Full-Disk Encryption **Compliance** - Access Management - At-Risk Analysis - DLP Configuration - Sensitive Data Compliance **Governance** - Compliance - Access Management - Multi-Factor Authentication **Compliance** - Authentication - Policy Enforcement - Access Management **Administration** - Database Management - Deduplication - Backup - API / integrations **Protection** - Database Activity Monitoring - Firewall - Data Masking - Audits **Management** - Backup - Recovery - File Management - Anomaly Detection **Security ** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Data Transport - Data Types - Security Tools ## Top Oracle Advanced Security Alternatives - [Progress MOVEit](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-moveit/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (519 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,781 reviews) - [Keeper Password Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/keeper-password-manager/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,188 reviews)