There are a few other good sources on the internet. o - otn has some reasonably good papers on security of both the e RDBMS and the application server. o - I wrote a simple "scanner" for security focus last year that looks for some basic issues - see http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1522 o - check out a presentation and a good white paper on Aaron Newmans site at http://www.appsecinc.com about security on Oracle o - check out Dave Litchfields paper on hackproofing the application server - it includes some RDBMS issues as well, at http://www.nextgenss.com/papers/hpoas.pdf o - you can also download Oracle security tools from both of these sites free for trial use for a limited time. o - check out www.securityfocus.com - there are a few papers, check also www.sans.org - see http://rr.sans.org/appsec/oracle.php and http://rr.sans.org/appsec/oracle_db.php and http://rr.sans.org/appsec/final.php - each of them refeernces varoius other sources. o - search out google, there are a few good papers out there, not many check lists, i have only seen o ne before that was a good start, i cannot remember the URL though. I hope the above helps a bit. kind regards Pete Finnigan pete@peterfinnigan.demon.co.uk pete@petefinnigan.com http://www.petefinnigan.com http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1522 - "A simple Oracle Security Scanner" http://downloads.securityfocus.com/library/oracle-security.pdf - "Exploiting and protecting Oracle" Contributors : Heaton Geoff Mehta Prerak finnigan pete