Oracle today announced the immediate availability of Oracle(r) Application Access Controls Governor Release 8, a key component of the Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) applications suite and the latest release of Oracle's comprehensive application access control solution that enables compliance, audit and security officers to automatically enforce authorization policies across Oracle and non-Oracle systems.

The latest release of Oracle Application Access Controls Governor provides:

Best-practice segregation of duties policy libraries for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business Suite to natively embed real-time preventive controls within the applications. Also, this release leverages a services-oriented adapter framework and integration templates that easily extend capabilities to non-Oracle applications. The services-oriented approach is designed specifically to provide end-to-end access control across heterogeneous application environments.
A sophisticated access policy engine that supports fine-grained controls authoring and handling. This engine helps ensure that access policies are applied within their proper business context, thereby reducing any impact on daily business operations and minimizing unnecessary detection and remediation cycles resulting from false positives.
A central work queue console that includes contextual reports with embedded heat maps to enable more rapid identification and remediation of conflicts. Compliance and security officers can leverage pre-delivered embedded analytics that trace exceptions back to their root sources, along with advanced simulation capabilities to quickly and accurately diagnose exceptions.

Oracle Application Access Controls Governor is a key component of the Oracle GRC applications suite, a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that combine GRC intelligence, process and content management, and controls enforcement to achieve business objectives while helping to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate mandates. The Oracle GRC applications suite includes:
Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance Intelligence - presents qualitative and quantitative information from both Oracle and non-Oracle systems through integrated reports and dashboards, allowing executives and managers to confidently identify and focus efforts on key risk and control issues.
Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager - helps companies simplify regulatory compliance and reduce their costs by centrally managing policies and automating tasks to define, document, test and report on cross-regulatory control procedures.
Oracle Application Access Controls Governor - documents, manages, remediates and enforces access policies for effective segregation of duties.
Oracle Configuration Controls Governor - enforces data and application configuration integrity by tracking changes to critical setups and data.
Oracle Transaction Controls Governor - continuously monitors policies, controls and transactions to detect suspicious business activities.
Oracle Preventive Controls Governor - prevents unauthorized changes to critical application data and setups, and enforces real-time policy changes at a granular application level.