Database Security - Inflight Communication through TLS
Securing infrastructure remains critical aspects for everyone and for DBA that also means securing the database. This not just mean to secure your data written on disk (Encryption at rest) but also to secure your data which flows through network between client and network. All leading Database providers comes up with TLS encryption for these in-flight transactions which secure the communication over the network. In this blog we will cover, how to enable TLS based encryption for Oracle Database. There has been various blogs and sources of information to achieve this aspect but one may struggle to find a common place which list down all these activities at one place. I will try to consolidate them which will includes steps for RAC and Standby as well. TLS is an incremental version of SSL version 3 and TLS1.2 is the latest one in the series. Using Oracle Database SSL provides: 1. Encrypt communication between client and server. 2. Authenticate ...