Publisher's Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Protect Your Mission-Critical Data with Tips and Tricks from an Oracle Security Insider Oracle expert David Knox has written the most practical, up-to-date book on Oracle Database 10 g security available. With an emphasis on real-world problems and detailed solutions, Effective Oracle Database 10g Security by Design provides all the information you need to develop and deploy secure database applications. The entire security cycle is covered--from identification and authentication to fine-grained access control and encryption to effective auditing techniques. The material is presented with comprehensive yet easy-to-understand examples that show how to use all the security technologies in a complementary way.
It is a good book about the security basics of Oracle. The author did a good job of covering VPD (Row Level Security) and how to use it including the role of contexts. He also included a chapter about Oracle Label Security which is a different spin on row level security that originated out of the Government work that Oracle did.
Definitely worth a read for those Oracle professionals who wanted to get a broad overview of the different security mechanisms in Oracle and recommendations on how and when to implement them.