Using Oracle Database native Auditing features
Preventing attacks to the database is the only approach to securing the database. Detecting potential attacks is also as important after all, the best security in the world is not going to stop every attacker. This is where the advantage of auditing comes to play. Auditing allows us to monitor the environment and identify potential attacks. This post will be based on Oracle 11g. Basically an Oracle 11g database supports four levels of auditing which we will discuss in a moment.