Computerworld: Two-Thirds of Oracle DBAs Don't Apply Security Patches
14 January 2008
Oracle Corp. issues dozens of security patches every quarter, but that doesn't mean database administrators are necessarily implementing them.
In fact, a good two-thirds of all Oracle DBAs appear not to be installing Oracle's security patches at all, no matter how critical the vulnerabilities may be, according to survey results from Sentrigo Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based vendor of database security products.
The results are "surprising, and to be candid, quite frightening," said Mike Rothman, president of consulting firm Security Incite in Atlanta.
Sentrigo polled 305 Oracle database administrators from 14 Oracle user groups between August 2007 and January 2008.
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