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Successfully protect your database communication using 1-way Transport Layer Security (TLS)

About This Workshop

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About This Workshop
TLS is the standard based approach for encrypting data in motion. Since TLS provides one-way authentication or mutual two-way authentication, it minimizes the chance of a breach.

Workshop Info

1 hour
  • Verify network traffic is unencrypted before configuring TLS
  • Create root wallet and self signed root CA certificate
  • Create database server wallet and create certificate request
  • Sign database certificate with root CA certificate
  • Add CA root certificate and database server certificate to database wallet
  • Import CA root certificate into client trust store (Linux, Windows only)
  • Configure for TLS network encryption
  • Connect using TLS network encryption and verify traffic is encrypted
  • Create new OS user and encrypt SQL traffic.
  • (Optional) Disable encryption
  • Familiarity with Database is desirable, but not required
  • Some understanding of cloud and database terms is helpful
  • Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is helpful
  • Some basic understanding of DB security is a plus

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