Oracle, last Wednesday, announced the expansion of its built-in security services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help customers protect their cloud applications and data against emerging threats. Five new capabilities round out OCI’s already comprehensive security offering, including a new built-in and cloud-native firewall service and enhancements to Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Security Zones. These innovations will further help ensure that organizations can easily secure their cloud deployments and applications with simple, prescriptive, and integrated services that in most cases, do not require additional investment.
Oracle has made security foundational and built-in for OCI customers to help them address regulatory compliance requirements, stay on top of security threats and concerns, and prevent security-related outages. Oracle is expanding its cloud security capabilities to provide multiple layers of defense to help identify and defeat emerging threats and security violations quickly. New capabilities include:
- OCI Network Firewall: Provides centralized protection against cyberattacks across OCI with a new cloud-native, managed firewall service that is powered by industry-leading Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall technology (NGFW).
- Oracle Threat Intelligence Service: Aggregates threat intelligence data across different sources and manages this data to provide actionable guidance for threat detection and prevention in Oracle Cloud Guard and other OCI services.
- Oracle Cloud Guard Threat Detector: Identifies misconfigured resources, insecure activity across customer environments, and potential malicious threat activities.
- Oracle Security Zones: Expands Oracle Security Zones with support for customer-defined policy sets and integrated security posture monitoring with Cloud Guard.
- Oracle Cloud Guard Fusion Applications Detector: Extends Oracle Cloud Guard beyond cloud security posture management for OCI to also monitor Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and provide customers with a consolidated view of security policies.
Anand Oswal, senior vice president, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks
Oracle continues to pave the way in building cloud services that have natively integrated and feature rich security capabilities. By choosing to integrate the industry-leading technology in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next Generation Firewall, Oracle is giving its customers incredible security as a native service. Oracle customers can have the peace of mind that they have access to many of Palo Alto Networks network security tools.
Mahesh Thiagarajan, senior vice president, Security and Developer Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle has decades of experience guiding customers to secure their valuable data and applications in the cloud and on-premises. With OCI Network Firewall, powered by industry-leading Palo Alto Networks, we are bringing the ecosystem closer to the platform. These latest innovations, combined with our existing offerings, provide organizations with a comprehensive set of cloud security services that lower the barrier to secure customer cloud environments and help them more easily identify potential vulnerabilities.
Karen Cake, Cloud Architect, Ferguson Enterprises
As we venture into the public cloud, Ferguson Enterprises is focused on cloud security. Oracle Security Zones integrated with Oracle Cloud Guard, helps Ferguson build safe environments and maintain security with true, ‘trust and verify’ security posture management.
Ruperto Herrera, director, ERP Architecture, Northern Illinois University
We are looking to Oracle Cloud Guard to easily monitor and remediate security violations. Oracle Cloud Guard can enable us to centrally monitor the security posture, providing strong governance and control over what is being built within OCI by our team.
