Developer Role               

A new role allows administrators to quickly assign developers only the privileges they need to design, build and deploy applications for the Oracle Database.

Schema Privileges             

System privileges can now be granted at the schema level simplifying the privilege management process.

TLS 1.3 Support               

Oracle Database now supports the latest version of TLS, 1.3.

Microsoft Azure AD Integration

Azure Active Directory users can use Azure AD OAuth2 tokens to access OCI DBaaS databases as well as on-premises databases.

SQL Firewall

SQL Firewall provides real-time protection against common database attacks by monitoring and blocking unauthorized SQL.

Longer passwords

Oracle Database 23c expands the maximum length of a database password.

Audit access to sensitive columns

Enables to create policies for auditing individual column access.

DBA experience with Oracle Database 11g through 19c.
 

Discover some of the New Security Features in the upcoming Long-Term Release.