Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT): A Practical Foundation for Database Security Posture Management
Introduction: Database Security Is No Longer Optional Databases remain the most valuable - and most targeted - assets in enterprise IT landscapes. As organizations modernize with cloud, multitenant architectures, and AI-driven workloads, database attack surfaces expand rapidly. Misconfigurations, unpatched vulnerabilities, excessive privileges, and unmanaged sensitive data continue to be the root cause of most database breaches—not zero-day exploits. Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) addresses this problem directly. Rather than reacting to incidents, DBSAT enables organizations to measure, understand, and systematically improve database security posture across Oracle Database environments—from legacy on-premises systems to Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle AI Database 26ai. DBSAT is not a monitoring tool, nor a generic compliance scanner. It is a deep, configuration-aware security assessment framework designed by Oracle Database Security engineering to expose...
