By/ Kelly Jackson Higgins Posted on July 1 2014
Renowned Oracle database researcher/hacker David Litchfield has kept the database company honest for years now when it comes to security: No one knows security holes in Oracle databases like Litchfield.
The pressure his research has put on the database giant has yielded security improvements to its software over the past few years, and Litchfield was pleasantly surprised to see the new data redaction feature Oracle recently added to help protect sensitive information stored in the database. Data redaction, which protects sensitive data such as credit card numbers and SSNs in database queries by basically blocking that information from unauthorized eyes, has been widely touted as a major security feature for databases.
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