Today’s enterprise is completely dependant on the availability of its business-critical servers and applications. This availability is directly threatened by the numerous vulnerabilities and software patches that are continuously revealed by the software vendors. In the case of Oracle, users must now develop plans to kit and deploy patches every three months. As IT administrators continue to struggle to patch quickly without disruption to availability, the search for alternatives to rapid, unplanned patching continues. Nowhere is the problem more acute than in Oracle database implementations. With greater than 40% market share of the world’s relational database market, Oracle is ubiquitous and often constitutes an integral component of an organization’s critical infrastructure.

This paper discusses Blue Lane Technologies’ innovative solution for proactively remediating vulnerabilities, which falls between the time when the vulnerability is discovered and when it can be safely and permanently mitigated. The Blue Lane solution is the most effective and efficient paradigm to accomplish both timely vulnerability closure and maintenance of availability and budget.