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Meet compliance and best practice requirements for encryption, access control, and data access logging with CipherTrust Transparent Encryption, a proven, hardware-accelerated solution that secures files, volumes, and linked cloud storage across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
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What is transparent encryption?
Transparent Encryption protects data by automatically encrypting it without changing how users or applications access it. It secures sensitive information seamlessly and supports compliance.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption delivers data-at-rest encryption with centralized key management, privileged user access control and detailed data access audit logging. This protects data wherever it resides, on-premises, across multiple clouds and within big data, and container environments.
Deployment is simple, scalable, and fast, with agents installed at the file-system or device layer. Encryption and decryption are transparent to applications, ensuring no changes to business or operational processes—even during rollout. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE) helps meet compliance and security best practices with minimal effort and cost. It integrates with the FIPS 140-3 Level 3 compliant CipherTrust Manager for centralized key and policy management for the CipherTrust Data Security Platform.
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What transparent encryption can do for your business
Transparent data protection
File-level data protection—no changes to apps, systems, or workflows required.
Seamless and easy to deploy
Agents run at file or volume level, supporting local disks and cloud storage like S3 and Azure.
Meet compliance and best practice requirements
Encryption, access controls, and logging are core requirements for standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and more.
Powerful data protection made simple with CipherTrust Transparent Encryption
Define who can access what, when, where, and how—across systems, LDAP, Active Directory, Hadoop, and containers. Enforce privileged user controls without disrupting admin workflows.
Leverages AES and ECC with FIPS 140-3 validation. Modern CPU support and agent-based deployment ensure minimal latency and no performance bottlenecks.
Protect data across Linux, Windows, and Unix—in data centers, clouds, containers, and big data environments—without changing infrastructure or workflows.
Detailed audit logs and prebuilt dashboards make it easy to detect threats and meet compliance with leading SIEM integrations.
Encrypt or rekey live data without disrupting apps using our patented Live Data Transformation—an industry-first capability.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption protects sensitive data in AI and LLM applications and helps maintain compliance across AI workflows. It also supports post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM) for secure communications.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE) suite offerings
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption UserSpace
Offers scalable file system encryption and access control for Linux, with seamless support for ongoing server patching—no connector changes needed.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for Kubernetes
Enables protection of sensitive data on persistent volumes via encryption, access controls, data access logging.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection
Continuously monitors processes for abnormal I/O activity and alerts or blocks malicious activity.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Live Data Transformation
Enables non-disruptive initial encryption and easy key rotations, letting users work uninterrupted.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for SAP HANA
Proven approach for quickly securing data in SAP HANA environments, ensuring optimal performance applications.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for Teradata
Secure sensitive data with efficient block-level encryption while preserving Teradata performance.
End-to-End Data Protection
Enhance trust in Confidential Computing to secure data all the time.
CDSPaaS CipherTrust Transparent Encryption
Click-and-deploy encryption with Data Protection on Demand. Get powerful key management and data protection in minutes—no hardware, no hassle.
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Frequently asked questions
Transparent encryption protects data at the file or volume level while allowing organizations to apply granular security policies based on users, applications, processes, and data types. Full disk encryption protects an entire storage device but typically cannot control who accesses individual files after the system is running. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption combines file-level encryption, access controls, and detailed audit logging to provide stronger protection for sensitive data in physical, virtual, cloud, and container environments.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption is designed to minimize performance impact through hardware-accelerated encryption and kernel-level deployment. Because encryption and decryption occur transparently as data is accessed, applications typically require no code changes or workflow modifications. Organizations can encrypt sensitive data while maintaining business operations and application availability.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption helps reduce ransomware risk by combining encryption with granular access controls, privileged user policies, and continuous audit logging. Organizations can limit unauthorized access to sensitive files, monitor abnormal activity, and reduce opportunities for attackers to encrypt, exfiltrate, or tamper with protected data. Together, these controls strengthen cyber resilience while supporting compliance requirements.
CipherTrust Transparent Encryption protects data across Windows, Linux, and supported Unix platforms in physical, virtual, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. It also supports cloud storage, containers, Kubernetes deployments, big data platforms, and enterprise applications, enabling organizations to apply consistent encryption and access policies across their entire infrastructure.
File-level encryption protects sensitive data regardless of the application or database storing it. Unlike native database encryption, CipherTrust Transparent Encryption secures files, directories, and volumes while applying centralized encryption policies, granular access controls, and audit logging. This allows organizations to protect structured and unstructured data consistently across databases, file servers, cloud workloads, and enterprise applications.