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May 20, 2010

Oracle said earlier this morning that it has acquired database firewall vendor Secerno.

The move is designed to help its enterprise customers better secure their own databases and related mission-critical applications.

With its focus and long-term dedication on strong firewall security in the enterprise segment, in the past few years, Secerno has competed headon in the marketplace with such vendors as Imperva and Guardium, which was acquired last December by IBM.

For its part, Oracle sees this acquisition as a method to combine its own database security products with Secerno's "DataWall Appliance" in an effort to better help its customers make sure their data is absolutely secure and well protected.

Designed specifically for both Oracle and non-Oracle relational databases, Secerno's DataWall firewall appliance analyzes how databases are accessed to allow database administrators to set up policies to control that access.

Overall, using active monitoring, the firewall can detect and block any suspicious attempts to attack the database, according to Secerno.

The database firewall vendor also offers specialized, complex admin auditing features to help enterprises make certain they're in full compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other mandatory government regulatory standards.

Andrew Mendelsohn, senior v.p. of Oracle Database Server Technologies says "Oracle's Secerno acquisition today is in direct response to increasingly growing customer challenges around mitigating database security risk. Secerno's database firewall product acts as a real first line of defense against external threats and unauthorized internal access with a protective perimeter around both Oracle and non-Oracle databases."

Financial terms of the acquisition weren't revealed this morning, but the transaction is expected to close in mid-June.

In other news, and barely two weeks after the EU has given Oracle the green light to acquire Sun Microsystems, the database giant in February cancelled access to its Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun Microsystems as an open source project-hosting platform.

"Project Kenai will be discontinued for public use", an Oracle blog post said.

"However, Oracle will still continue to use it internally and look for ways that our customers and partners can take advantage of it," the Oracle post said.

Now external users must move elsewhere as Oracle consolidates its project hosting sites from both companies. Apr. 2nd is the actuall deadline to make the move, the company stated.

Oracle's phasing-out is being done to consolidate project-hosting endeavours, according to the Project Kenai Team in a posting about the future of Kenai.

"Minimizing the number of current project-hosting sites is a start in this direction," the team said.

"The complete shutdown of the website and the removal of the domain will be completed in the next 60 days. This should provide ample time for all projects to be moved to a new home of the project owners choice," the Kenai team said.

"Any projects that remain after the sixty day trial limit will be removed when the site is turned off," the team said.

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Source: ELN.

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