Hindustan Petroleum pumps it up with Oracle

NEW DELHI, INDIA: In an effort to strengthen security and prevent leakage of competing bid information, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), has secured its Crude Oil Import Tender application with Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault solutions.

HPCL refineries crude throughput is 15.81 million metric tonnes. Therefore, procuring the right quality of crude oil at the optimum time and price through the e-tendering application plays a very critical role in HPCL’s overall profit. During HPCL’s crude oil import tendering, all bid information is submitted online/ via the web and stored in an Oracle Database.

To address this, HPCL has implemented Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault to be able to safeguard volumes of classified information of competing bid data. This could include information on material quality, quantity, loading port, pricing period among others, which are all submitted, online by over 60 international vendors.

Oracle Database Vault allows HPCL to prevent confidential bid data from unauthorized access by any user — even privileged users such as Database Administrators.

In addition, Oracle Audit Vault enables HPCL’s to audit all database activity and reduce the cost of IT security costs by automating the collection and consolidation of audit data from all database servers.

These Oracle solutions help HPCL ensure confidential data is not leaked during the bidding process that is critical to the HPCL’s profitability adds the press release.

“The e-tendering application is a very vital and integral part of HPCL’s crude oil business. Being an online process, we had to ensure that no information leaks out before the bid is closed,” said Nishi Vasudeva, Executive Director — Information Systems, HPCL. “We decided to implement Oracle Audit Vault and Database Vault because they extend the power of Oracle Database security to meet specific requirements in security and compliance.”

“We are delighted to be able to support —HPCL in securing their e-tendering process with solutions that protect their mission critical data,” said Sandeep Mathur, Vice President, Technology Sales, Oracle India. “At a time when companies are facing increasingly sophisticated threats from both external attacks and insiders, Oracle Database Security solutions allow organizations to deploy controls needed to protect their data and their business.”