Enterprise User Security is an important component of Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) Enterprise Edition. It enables you to address administrative and security challenges for a large number of enterprise database users. Enterprise users are those users that are defined in a directory. Their identity remains constant throughout the enterprise. Enterprise User Security relies on Oracle Identity Management infrastructure, which in turn uses an LDAP-compliant directory service to centrally store and manage users.
This chapter explains what Enterprise User Security is and how it works, in the following topics: