Pete Finnigan

I security scanned 19c and 26ai Oracle Autonomous Databases and compared the results as well as going back and comparing to 11g to 23c/ai on premise databases - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #ukoug #oracle #database #security #securityscan #vulnerabilities

New PFCLScan version 2025 has just been released - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #tools #audit #plsql #forensics #obfuscate

Can we detect if someone is guessing passwords in an Oracle database? New blog - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #password #cracking #hacking #users #connection #failed #logins

Happy New Year 2026 to all of our customers, website visitors and social media connections/followers and likers. New blog on Oracle Security training, MySQL and more - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #training #mysql

Just got back from 2 great days at the UKOUG 2025 conference in Birmingham. Great to chat to so many people and thanks to all who attended my two talks. #oracleace #sym_42 #ukoug #ukougdiscover25

Do not put security checks in the begin/end block of a package if you want the security to work - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #checks #plsql #package

If you’re responsible for managing, designing or auditing Oracle databases, then the upcoming three-day course by Pete Finnigan is one you won’t want to miss - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #OracleSecurity #DatabaseSecurity #OracleDBA #CyberSecurityTraining #OracleTraining

Are you worried that someone could steal the data from your Oracle database? Do you feel overwhelmed and need guidance to secure your database.

I will be teaching 3 days in depth training in York, UK on the 3rd, 4th and 5th December 2025. lnkd.in/eniNGiQP

Book your place now -

I will be teaching a 3 day Oracle Security class in York, UK from 3rd to 5th December 2025. Full details of the class are here - www.petefinnigan.com/training/ora... - Rare opportunity to be taught in person. To book early as places limited #oracle #security #training #oracleace

I have just posted a new blog discussing AI and AI for Oracle Security - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #ukoug #ai #UKOUGDiscover25 #OracleCommunity #JoelKallmanDay #oracle #database #AI

Brand new blog post discussing how we may block DISABLE TRIGGER to help with designing security solutions within the database - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #grants #ddl #trigger #protect #hacking #databreach #UKOUGDiscover2025

I have been accepted to speak twice at the UKOUG conference in December - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #UKOUGDiscover25 #UKOUG #conference #community #oracle #database #security #fuzzing #design #plsql

My Oracle Security blog is 21 next week. I have created a summary post detailing some of the blog journey - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #tools #software #training #products #blogging #birthday

Is it possible in Oracle to stop your own procedure/package from being executed by someone with EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE? - petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #trail #audittrail #databreach #hacking #grants #protect #readonly #table

Testing our secured schema and table to allow READONLY and delete and insert only via an API - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #trail #audittrail #databreach #hacking #grants #protect #readonly #table

Lets implement an account you cannot log into and a table that you can read but not delete/insert except by an API and no updates! - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #trail #audittrail #grants #protect #readonly #table

New blog discussing how we may replicate the security of the AUDSYS.AUD$UNIFIED table without access to Oracle secret sauce - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #unified #protect #audittrail #databreach #readonly #grants #protection

What is a schema in Oracle and what does the CREATE SCHEMA command do? - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #create #schema

Exploring how Oracle may or may not secure AUDSYS and AUD$UNIFIED - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #unified #protect #audittrail #databreach

Twisted foot sideways and heard loud snap so knew it was broken. Rang 111, A&E and Urgent Care, x-ray &had the boot fitted quickly. 4-6 weeks for it to heal BUT all Oracle Security work, training and products are available #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #training #software

A new PL/SQL unwrapper for 9i and lower - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #plsql #unwrap #reverse #engineering #security

New blog about attacking and protecting the Oracle database from file system issues - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #dos #hacking #file #directory #java

Thanks for this great insight Christoph

Oracle protects the user AUDSYS and makes the table AUD$UNIFIED read only; not 100% true because Oracle writes to it and allows delete via DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT. How does this work - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #audit #trail #unifiedaudit #readonly

Would you be surprised to know that if you issue one DDL command in Oracle that it actually does two DDL commands? - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #ddl #grants #privileges #hacking

Don't be caught out using Mixed Mode Unified audit and find that your unified audit trail stops working - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace #sym_42 #unified #audit #oracle #database #security #audittrail #audit

Blog post about auditing Oracle databases - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - creating a security score, alerts score as well as adaptive audit trails and security and finally a black-box flight recorder for Oracle databases - #oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #database #security #audit

I have just created a blog post discussing privilege escalation in Oracle - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - #oracleace @oracleace #sym_42 #oracle #security #privilege #escalation #roles #grants #databreach #hacking #training

More details in - www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archi... - discussing June 29th. 30 years since I got a first class honours degree in Electronics and 49 years since myself and Paul stopped an express train from crashing - #oracleace #oracle #security #traincrash #degree #electronics #june29th

Thanks #oracleace @oracleace for accepting me as an Oracle ACE Pro for another year!!