Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Technical Director | Database and Cloud Security

Oracle, Consulting Services | Minneapolis, Minnesota US

Oracle ACE Director Alum

Biography

Oracle ACE Director Alum Daniel Morgan is the Technical Director for Database and Cloud Security at Oracle Consulting where his team designed, built, and performs Oracle's Database Attack Surface Reduction Assessments. Prior to joining Oracle Morgan was an consultant and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington where he wrote the Oracle program and was its primary instructor for 11 years. Dan was the founding Chair of the Washington Software Association's Database Special Interest Group and has taught Master Classes, Workshops, and lectured on Oracle in 47 countries, during 149 country visits, since 2008. Dan is the 'Morgan' behind the MorgansLibrary.com website, the founder of dbsecworx.com, and focuses his efforts on assisting Oracle's customers with the technical information they need to protect the data, metadata, and intellectual property in their Oracle Databases.

Papers

Oracle Database Attack Surface Reduction Master Class

Event: Master Class November 2022
Stream: Architecture, Cloud Database & Technology

Dan Morgan’s Oracle Database Attack Surface Reduction Master Class has been designed for an audience of senior technologists, DBAs and Developers, as well as senior Information Security professionals not put off by technical details and demonstration live in SQL*Plus. In Scope for this workshop are unpublished exploits, undocumented parameters, and more than 730 configuration changes that can impact the ability of an Oracle Database to survive a sophisticated attack by persons and bots even if they have phished valid credentials. Out of scope for this workshop are options, licenses, and products. The Workshop’s goal is to provide information security professions with the information they need to reduce the attack surface of what they already own.