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Online SSL certificate renewal for Encryption at rest

SSL_KMIP_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_LABEL change requires instance restart. Can we do this parameter as dynamic online update parameter without any outage to db2 instance.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0

DB2 LUW : Trusted contexts over IPC

There are many applications where application and DB is co-located in the same server. User impersonation via trusted contexts helps control the access of the database for individual users even though a common technical ID is seeded in application...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Future consideration

Store auditing information directly in a table ( this option does not require files )

Allow DB2 to configure auditing to store auditing information in a table. Information could be retrieved using SELECT commands and there is no need to use system procedures or utilities like db2audit to extract information from files. The purpose ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Marking range partitions in a table as readonly

Need feature at range-partition level granularity to mark it read-only so that no update/insert/delete can be performed on a particular range-partition. And by default (when not marked as readonly) all partitions carries table level permissions.Pe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Tool to check SSL certificate connectivity with KEYSECURE

Need some way to check if provided SSL certificate for secured connection to KEYSECURE is indeed valid before putting it in kmip cfg. This reduces the risk of any issues with SSL certificate on actual implementation day on production system.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow creating allow/deny list of system calls possible by fenced external routines

This will secure the database further from malicious users trying to break out into the host running managed Db2 services on Cloud. This can be done using:1. seccomp() before spawning the db2fmp process and 2. Making more secure SELinux policies f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege ， after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000 sqllib/db2dump/events sqllib/tmp sqllib/uif ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

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