Consolidation, outsourcing and cloud computing are just a few of the business initiatives driving IT organizations to focus on data security. Companies have moved beyond securing the network perimeter and made strengthening security controls around data a top priority. Oracle provides a defense-in-depth database security architecture that enables organizations to add a new layer of security around data, without impacting applications, with a systematic and transparent approach to increase security controls. By leveraging database activity monitoring and blocking, privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, transparent data encryption, consolidated auditing and reporting, secure configuration management, and data masking, IT organizations can safeguard data, help ensure regulatory compliance, and achieve security goals.