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    Audit Help from Oracle: Friend or Foe?

    Oracle offers 'free' audit tools and compliance resources — but they're gathering intelligence, not helping you. From GLAS (formerly LMS) scripts to OCI Audit Service, we reveal how Oracle's 'helpful' resources often create the compliance findings they then use against you.

    Michael Corey

    Michael Corey

    Co-Founder, LicenseFortress

    July 2023
    10 min read
    Audit Help from Oracle: Friend or Foe?

    Oracle offers 'free' audit tools and compliance resources — but they're gathering intelligence, not helping you. From GLAS (formerly LMS) scripts to OCI Audit Service, we reveal how Oracle's 'helpful' resources often create the compliance findings they then use against you.

    The bottom line

    Oracle offers 'free' audit tools and compliance resources — but they're gathering intelligence, not helping you. From GLAS (formerly LMS) scripts to OCI Audit Service, we reveal how Oracle's 'helpful' resources often create the compliance findings they then use against you.

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    About the author

    Michael Corey

    Michael Corey

    Co-Founder, LicenseFortress

    Michael writes on vendor strategy, audit behavior and the business realities of enterprise software agreements.

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