Configuration Management

Oracle Configuration Management pack for Enterprise Manager, part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions, helps organizations increase the security of their Oracle databases and comply with IT control frameworks such as Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) "Internal Control - Integrated Framework" as required by Sarbanes-Oxley and similar global directives. Oracle Configuration Management combines discovery, vulnerability scanning, compliance benchmarking, and central management of database configuration to detect and prevent configuration drift or unauthorized configuration changes. Additionally Configuration Management's Critical Patch Update Advisory feature alerts customers to critical patches issued by Oracle and immediately identifies those systems across the enterprise that may require the new critical patch, optionally invoking the patch wizard to automatically deploy the patch, ensuring application databases are always up-to-date and protected.

• Pre-defined, customizable policy groups—Built-in collection of over 250 best practices based on industry standards for security and configuration management, which can be customized by administrator to their specific IT environment.
• Compliance dashboards—Continuous evaluation results are converted into compliance scores and presented to Administrators and CIOs in at-a-glance views which highlight key indicators, provide the ability to drilldown to details, and track progress towards compliance over time.
• Deep configuration awareness—Deep configuration information about hardware and software components across the enterprise, including client systems, is collected and analyzed, thereby mitigating compliance risk factors, and providing demonstrable control over the entire IT environment for IT governance and compliance.