Native Integrations

Monitor Oracle database with Log360

Overview

Log360 integrates seamlessly with Oracle Database to help organizations monitor, audit, and analyze database activity. It collects native Oracle logs and presents them in a intuitive interface, enabling security teams to detect threats, investigate anomalies, and ensure compliance with industry standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOX. With real-time reporting and alerting, Log360 offers complete visibility into user actions, access patterns, and potential abuse.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Oracle logs

Log360 collects Oracle audit logs by reading operating system level audit log files generated by the Oracle database. To enable this, auditing must be configured at the OS level by setting the AUDIT_TRAIL parameter to OS in the Oracle server.

For Oracle servers on Windows, administrators can verify and set this parameter using SQL*Plus. On Unix based platforms, the same change is made in the initialization parameter file. Additionally, Unix systems can direct audit records to the syslog service by setting the AUDIT_SYSLOG_LEVEL parameter.

Monitoring and analytics capabilities

Log360 enables comprehensive monitoring of Oracle databases through the following key capabilities:

User activity monitoring: Track every login attempt, successful or failed, including the user name, client IP, and timestamp.
Audit trail analysis: Review and audit critical database operations, such as changes to schema objects, privilege escalations, and session terminations.
System level events: Service like startups, shutdowns, and login failures are monitored and reported to support comprehensive audit. trails.Permission and role changes: Monitor changes to user privileges, group memberships, and role grants.
Account status tracking: Get real-time alerts for account lockouts, password expirations, and unauthorized account activations.
Anomaly detection: Leverage behavior analytics to flag deviations in access patterns, such as access from unusual IPs or logins outside business hours.
Change tracking: Monitors changes across databases, clusters, tables, schemas, functions, and triggers.
Correlation with other systems: Cross correlate Oracle activity with logs from Active Directory, firewalls, or endpoint systems to gain unified threat context.

Critical Oracle events monitored

Log360 focuses on capturing and alerting on the following high risk events from Oracle databases:

Failed login attempts: Detect brute force attempts and unauthorized access.
Schema changes: Monitor DDL operations such as CREATE, ALTER, or DROP.
Privilege escalations: Track GRANT or REVOKE commands that modify access rights.
User creation and deletion: Detect the addition or removal of user accounts.
Password changes: Audit all password reset or change operations.
Session anomalies: Alert on long lived sessions or those with abnormal activity.
Audit configuration changes: Log changes to audit policies or logging mechanisms.
SQL injection patterns: Identify unusual use of UNION, SELECT, OR 1=1, and other suspicious payloads.
Denial-of-service indicators: Detect sudden surges in failed login attempts or resource intensive queries that may indicate a DoS attack.
Account lockouts and expirations: Track inactive or expired accounts and locked users.

Key benefits

Real time auditing of Oracle activity: Ensure every change or query is accounted for as it happens.
Customizable alerting and thresholds: Define thresholds and receive alerts for specific Oracle events or user behaviors.
Compliance ready reports: Built in templates for SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more.
Access visibility: Drill down into object level and row level access patterns.
Correlated threat detection: Combine Oracle logs with other data sources for full context security investigations.

Addressing key Oracle security challenges

Challenge	How Log360 solves it
Lack of centralized audit visibility across databases	Aggregates logs from multiple Oracle instances in a single console
Limited native alerting capabilities in Oracle	Sends real-time alerts on suspicious activity, including failed logins and privilege abuse
Detecting privilege escalations or unauthorized changes	Monitors all GRANT, REVOKE, and schema modification commands
Inability to detect SQL injection attacks in real time	Uses predefined rules and behavior-based models to identify SQL injection attempts
Manual compliance reporting and audit fatigue	Offers prebuilt reports mapped to regulatory requirements with automated scheduling
Difficulty tracking dormant or misused accounts	Alerts on inactive accounts, expired passwords, and anomalous usage
Lack of correlation between database and infrastructure events	Correlates Oracle logs with network, firewall, and endpoint data for unified threat analysis
Risk of undetected denial-of-service conditions	Detects login storms, abnormal query patterns, and long-running sessions
No visibility into audit policy tampering	Monitors audit configuration changes to ensure integrity
Limited incident investigation capability	Provides indexed log search, visual timelines, and forensic drill-downs