
Cloud Security Services
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Security helps organizations reduce the risk of security threats for cloud workloads. With simple, prescriptive, and integrated security capabilities built into the OCI platform, Oracle helps customers easily adopt and secure their cloud infrastructure, data, and applications.
What's new in OCI Security
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Revolutionize network and data security
Read about Oracle Zero Trust Packet Routing Platform, which will be built based on the Zero Trust Packet Routing standard. The platform will help organizations prevent unauthorized use of their data without extra hurdles for legitimate activities.
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Zero trust security with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
See how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can help organizations adopt a zero trust security model as recommended by industry compliance standards such as, the UK National Cyber Security Centre’s 8 principles.
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Cloud Security vs. Secure Cloud
Learn about the distinction between cloud security and a secure cloud, and discover why both approaches are valuable for comprehensive protection.

Learn about the security innovations set to transform the cloud in 2025.
Oracle Infrastructure Cloud Security benefits
Oracle believes security should be foundational and built-in, and customers shouldn’t be forced to make tradeoffs between security and cost. Oracle is focused on helping to reduce risk by providing a comprehensive set of simple, prescriptive, and integrated security capabilities that can help organizations secure their OCI tenancy. The integrated security services approach reduces the burden on customers, enabling them to focus on improving their core business.
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Security should be simple—easy to use, deploy, and operate
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Security tools should offer guidance to help customers achieve strong security more easily
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Security should be integrated and automated, reducing manual security tasks and human errors
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Cloud security should be economically attractive, improving the cost of securing cloud workloads
Oracle Infrastructure Cloud Security services
OCI Cloud Security services
Secure access
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Bastion provides restricted and time-sensitive secure access to private resources without a jump host.
Certificates management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certificates enables customers to easily create, deploy, and manage Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates.
Security posture management
Oracle Cloud Guard provides a unified view of security posture across all resources in a customer tenancy.
Database security
Oracle Data Safe simplifies security for cloud-based and on-premises Oracle AI Databases as a single, unified cloud service.
User access and entitlements
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management helps enforce identity across Oracle and non-Oracle cloud and on-premises services.
Network firewalls
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Network Firewall is an integrated, cloud native managed firewall service built using next-generation firewall technology from Palo Alto Networks.
Key management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Key Management helps customers centrally manage and maintain control of encryption keys and secret credentials.
Secure cloud compartments
Oracle Security Zones helps customers set up and enforce security policies to secure cloud compartments with a rich policy library and embedded security best practices.
Threat Intelligence
Oracle Threat Intelligence Service aggregates threat intelligence data from Oracle security experts, vast telemetry, common open-source feeds, and partners, including Crowdstrike.
Vulnerability management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning Service helps customers assess and monitor virtual and bare metal cloud hosts and remediate any open ports or patch unsafe packages.
Web application protection
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Web Application Firewall helps customers protect applications from malicious and unwanted internet and internal traffic with threat intelligence and consistent rule enforcement.
Security architecture and operating system
Zero downtime OS patching
Oracle Autonomous Linux helps eliminate complexity and human error with automatic patch updates and tuning.
Firmware-based attack protection
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Root of Trust protects customer tenants with a highly secure firmware installation.
Isolation of network attacks
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Isolated Network Virtualization helps isolate and virtualize the network to prevent malware within a compromised instance from moving to other customers’ instances.
Secure cloud infrastructure
Oracle Bare Metal Servers support applications requiring complete isolation, high core counts, large amounts of memory, and high memory bandwidth.
Regulatory compliance programs
Oracle Cloud Compliance pursues many programs that audit Oracle Cloud and help customers address compliance with global, regional, and industry-specific certifications.
- Operates globally
- Addresses the complex regulatory environment
Security solutions
Partner solutions
Oracle Cloud Marketplace allows customers to choose from an expansive library of Oracle and third-party images with click-to-deploy security solutions.
- Integrated and secure
- Flexible deployment and consumption modes
Industry security solutions
Public sector cloud
Oracle Cloud for Government gives governments dedicated cloud regions to migrate, manage, and protect workloads in the cloud.
- World-class security and compliance
- Consistent high performance
- Simple and predictable pricing
Data privacy
Privacy principles
Privacy@Oracle helps customers comply with data privacy principles with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure privacy features.
- Addresses concerns about the collection and use of your personal information
- Hosts multiple privacy policies used by different Oracle lines of business
OCI Cloud Security pricing
With OCI, customers get built-in security services, many at no additional cost, that don’t require complex integrations.
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Cloud Security Posture Management included
Get a unified view of the cloud security posture to detect and act on misconfigured resources, insecure activities, and vulnerabilities.
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Evaluate Web Application Firewall for free
The first WAF instance and up to 10 million requests per month are free for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers (excluding Government customers).
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Try OCI Bastion
See how easy bastions can be set up for restricted and time-limited secure access to resources that require strict resource access controls.
Cloud Security Services reference architectures
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Reference Architecture
Implement OCI Cyber Recovery for Oracle workloads from any source environment
Create a cyber recovery vault in an OCI tenancy as a validation and recovery environment for database-centric workloads running on OCI, other hyperscalers, or on-premises.
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Solution Playbook
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Amazon Web Services professionals
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Google Cloud professionals
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Microsoft Azure professionals
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Additional Cloud Security resources
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Learn more about OCI Security
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Web Application Firewall
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Resources for OCI Security