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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — Security
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is growing vastly in all right directions. After deploying multiple projects in AWS, Oracle, and Google, I feel that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is simple to use. Also, the console is more user-friendly than the competitors. Simplicity is at the core of the Oracle Cloud design.
The number of Oracle Cloud services increased rapidly in the last year. Out of these services, my focus in this article is to discuss a few features and services that can instantly improve your deployments’ security posture with a minimal learning curve.
Security Zones
Security Zones let you be confident that your resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Compute, Networking, Object Storage, and Database resources, comply with Oracle’s security best practices. Oracle defined a maximum security recipe. When you create a security zone, you are technically creating a compartment with Oracle’s maximum-security recipe applied to that compartment(s).
Now, what is in the maximum-security recipe? Here are the various security policies that a security recipe covers:
- Restrict Resource Movement: The first thing is to secure the fortress. This policy will not let any user move any resource (block volume, compute, database, networking, object storage, etc.) from the…
