Re: Hiding sensitive EBS column data from certain users

Thank you all for fhe swift response.

Its a production EBS 12.2.6 environment. The requirement is to hide certain columns data in HR and Finance modules to specific users through forms. If we apply VPD it will break forms functionality. Also APPS. These are application defined users. In EBS its not simple VpD. So, any body with EBS functional and development knowledge can respond this.

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 8:56 PM Matthew Parker <dimensional.dba_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> Just need to highlight the problem in prod.
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> The rules applied can actually cause problems with the COTS applications
> like EBS that has their own internal security architecture.
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> Just need to do lots of testing.
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> For production environments, technologies which mask data in-flight,
> including Oracle's data redaction and SQL Server's dynamic data masking are
> appropriate solutions when a portion of the user community should not have
> access to certain data.
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> In development or testing (a.k.a. non-production) environments, there is
> no reason for anyone to have access to confidential data, including
> database administrators and systems administrators, partially because of
> the movement of development and testing environments to out-sourced,
> off-shore, or cloud environments. Masking data at-rest is the appropriate
> solution for non-production environments by permanently and irreversibly
> obfuscating data in datafiles, thus removing any value to intruders.
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> Following the implementation of GDPR
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation> in
> Europe this past May, CCPA <https://www.caprivacy.org/> in California has
> already been signed into law, with more countries and states to follow.
> The professional honor code to which all of IT has adhered for the past
> 40-50 years is no longer sufficient to protect confidential data.
> Essentially, unmasked data in non-production is becoming a liability to the
> DBAs, developers, and testers who work with it, because at some point, all
> these laws may hold individuals (as well as organizations) liable for the
> damages from data breaches. I expect that, like SOX, individual liability
> will begin at the top of the organization (i.e. CEO, CFO, etc) but with
> examples like Snowden there is no reason why those lower in the hierarchy
> cannot be targeted.
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> On 10/4/18 11:04, Matthew Parker wrote:
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> In Production or in Development? Different ways to do things based on the
> environment.
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> What version of the database are you running?
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> In 12.1 there is RAS Security (VPD 2.0) that also does column level data
> masking at no extra cost, but you have to create/implement the rules
> yourself.
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> Normally you control PROD by standard security controls, but you can
> implement RAS against report users if they are landing on your primary
> database. Just need to make sure anything you implement it doesn’t affect
> base EBS apps.
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> *Subject:* Hiding sensitive EBS column data from certain users
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> Hello List,
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> Is there anyway to hide data of sensitive columns in Oracle EBS (v12.2) to
> certain users? I thought of VPD, but, it seems, it has different approaches
> in EBS. Something like, personalizing the form to hide the values of the
> columns, though not sure.
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> Appreciate if any EBS expert can shed some light on this.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Syed Jaffar Hussain
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