Oracle Cloud Benefits: Open Enrollment Checklist

As you prepare for 2023-2024 Benefits Enrollment in Oracle Cloud, here is a handy checklist that will help you with your planning, preparation and execution. This simple Checklist has steps to Prepare Oracle cloud and your business for Open enrollment, Manage the open enrollment process from start to finish, and finally, close Open enrollment, including … Read more

How Tesla PII Data Leak could’ve been avoided?

Recently, a Tesla insider (two former Tesla employees) leaked confidential Tesla data including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. This included people name, address, phone number and social security numbers. Tesla offered 12 months of Experian’s Identityworks credit monitoring to all those who were affected. Luckily, the foreign outlet to whom the information was sold, did … Read more

How Do You Protect Data Breach From Non-Prod Environment?

On August 11, a software called MOVEit had a data breach – that caused PII data of 700K Indiana medicaid records to be compromised, among others. It impacted over 500 entities and personal information of over 30 million Americans. This breach was conducted by a foreign-based ransomware group known as Clop. Granted, you have to … Read more

Oracle Cloud Environment Management

In any project, and even after you’ve gone live, Environment Management or Oracle Cloud Pod Management is critical to the success of your project, and operations. Do not Refresh an environment on time, and you can miss a key milestone. Refresh an environment too soon, and you end up configuring things again. Miss code-migration and … Read more

Oracle Cloud Environment Post Refresh P2T Checklist

Do you have to put out myriads of fires after ever P2T? Did the vendor file go out of non-Prod environment and caused confusion? Hundreds of users received email for invoices named TEST123? Dev team is complaining because they can’t get into the pod and its delaying there development? If you have heard or dealt … Read more

Why email masking in non Prod is a must ?

In a recent news, over 2000 of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) employees did not receive their paycheck and many received termination notices. Later, it was found that those were mistakenly sent. The district had to publicly apologize for the issues and mentioned that they were actively working to resolve the problem and implement … Read more

What is PII data and why should I care?

Introduction PII stands for Personally Identifiable Information. It refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual, either on its own or in combination with other data. PII includes various types of data, such as: You should care about PII data because it is highly sensitive and can be misused if it … Read more

What is Data Masking?

Introduction Data masking, also known as static data masking, is the process of permanently replacing sensitive data with fictitious yet realistic looking data. It helps you generate realistic and fully functional data with similar characteristics as the original data to replace sensitive or confidential information.  Even in non-production environments, you need to protect your sensitive … Read more