Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Linux Entra ID Authentication Integration Options

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In recent months, I've been asked by several customers what options exist for centralizing Linux authentication, authorization and user ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

ODB Entra ID Integration For JDBC-thin Applications

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Centralizing Oracle AI Database Authentication, Authorization, and User Lifecycle Management is a great way to improve operational efficienc...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

TLS Cert Rotation Lifetime Compression

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One way that vendors and customers are forcing the improvement of security posture of web public key infrastructure (PKI) is through progres...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

How To Make Database Client Certificate Trust Store

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While helping out a customer with Oracle Database TLS configuration, they realized that they didn't have a trust store for their datab...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Analyzing TLS Negotiation With tshark

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One of the ever strengthening domains of security posture is network cryptography.  Every few years a new protocol version, set of cipher su...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Rotate Oracle Database CA-signed TLS Certificates

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Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate rotation is an annual part of database operationalization.  The purpose of this blog post is to...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Constraining TNS Searches

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This week, I had a most interesting customer request regarding limiting the scope of Oracle database name resolution (e.g. Transparent Netwo...