A Toad® for Oracle Tech Brief, by Bert Scalzo
 
Toad can very easily be configured to work within whatever security practices your company chooses to implement. Although, Toad, by itself, cannot -- and should not -- be your only means of database security, Toad offers a plethora of user options – some of which are very clearly security-related. However, the individual users must set most of the options, and therefore Toad user education and training is paramount to success – with ongoing monitoring for compliance. With minimal DBA set up and user effort, Toad can function well within even the most secure database environments. This technical brief outlines 10 easy-to-implement recommendations that have proven quite effective in safeguarding databases.
 
Database security threats fall into two categories: external and internal. This technical brief will focus on the latter category as it relates to Toad users.
 

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