RE: DOD security

FGAC (fine-grained access control. same/better thing. you'll need to code a bunch of pl/sql packages to re-jigger WHERE clauses based on security.  

it's definitely a full time job for a person for at least a week (for a production toy database) to months or seasons (for a real one) .  

Good luck, and God Bless the Security Weasels for providing this work.

	-----Original Message-----
	From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Tanel Põder
	Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:46 PM
	To: ORACLE-L
	Subject: Re: DOD security 
	
	
	Hi,
	 
	I think you can use Label Security now, instead of Trusted Oracle..
	 
	Tanel.
	 

		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: Goulet, Dick <mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com>  
		To: rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us ; oracle-l <mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org>  
		Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 5:35 PM
		Subject: RE: DOD security 
		
		
		Ruth,
		 
		    It has been a LONG time since I was involved with a project like this and even then we were using a "special" version of Oracle called Trusted Oracle.  Don't know if it's available anymore.  Anyhow it was a project for Strategic Air Command, now Air Combat Command, that was very classified.  The Trusted Oracle had provisions in it to declare data at the row and column levels as having a classification of Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Restricted, and Unclassified.  People also had security attached to them.  It was kinda interesting as you'd select data from a table and rows and columns would 

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