In an effort to strengthen security and prevent leakage of competing bid information, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has secured its Crude Oil Import Tender application with Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault solutions. The oil company has implemented Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault to be able to safeguard volumes of classified information of competing bid data. This could include information on material quality, quantity, loading port, pricing period among others, which are all submitted, online by over 60 international vendors.
Oracle Database Vault allows HPCL to prevent confidential bid data from unauthorized access by any user, even privileged users such as Database Administrators. In addition, the solution enables HPCL's to audit all database activity and reduce the cost of IT security costs by automating the collection and consolidation of audit data from all database servers. They help HPCL ensure confidential data is not leaked during the bidding process that is critical to the HPCL's profitability.
"We are delighted to be able to support HPCL in securing their e-tendering process with solutions that protect their mission-critical data," said Sandeep Mathur, Vice-President, Technology Sales, Oracle India. "At a time when companies are facing increasingly sophisticated threats from both external attacks and insiders, Oracle Database Security solutions allow organizations to deploy controls needed to protect their data and their business."
