DATABASE FORUM: Oracle Security for DBAs and Developers (April 2019)

Dan Morgan presents “Oracle Security for DBAs and Developers: How to secure your database using the products you already have”

Daniel Morgan
damorgan12c@gmail.com
Oracle ACE Director Dan Morgan is the Morgan behind Morgan’s Library.

Education: In 2009 Morgan retired from teaching at the University of Washington where he wrote the Oracle program and served as its primary instructor. In addition to his work at UW Morgan also served as an adviser to the outreach program at the University of California Berkeley, was a consultant on Oracle to Harvard University, and as a guest lecturer at numerous universities including the University of Oslo (Norway), the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Techologico de Costa Rica, and Universidad Latina de Panama. In 2014 Morgan taught a Master Class for IOUG as part of the “New Challenges & Opportunities Facing DBAs” series. Since then Morgan has continued his worldwide travels focusing on the three S’s: Stability, Security, and Scalability.

User Groups: Morgan is a member of the executive boards for the Vancouver and Victoria Oracle Users Groups in Canada, a member of NYOUG, the co-founder of the International GoldenGate Oracle Users Group, a former Board member of the Western Washington Oracle Users Group, a former Chair of the Washington Software Association’s Database Special Interest Group. Morgan has also been a member of UKOUG, the International Oracle zSeries SIG, the Oracle RAC SIG, and BAARF.

Community: Mr. Morgan is a regular contributor at Oracle conferences and forums around the world presenting at conferences including OpenWorld, Collaborate, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, IOUC International Leadership Conference, and has presented or taught Oracle in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Serbia, Sweden, Thailand, UK, Uruguay,  and the US.

Consulting: Currently Morgan focuses his efforts on consulting for Tier 1 enterprise clients in aerospace, telecommunications, e-commerce and the cloud. Morgan’s background in “databases” began on IBM mainframes in 1969 has has included Informix, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, and Teradata in addition to Oracle.