Securing Database Data and Demonstrating Compliance on Oracle Exadata - Solution Brief

Optimized, high-performing databases are essential for some organizations. Often these organizations process significant quantities of data—such as online payment transactions—quickly. Much of this data tends to be highly sensitive and subject to compliance obligations. Oracle’s native encryption functionality for Exadata—also known as transparent data encryption (TDE)—is an important tool for protecting this sensitive, regulated data. Oracle Exadata TDE encrypts data at the tablespace with very little impact on the applications accessing that protected data. While TDE secures data, it is an incomplete protection strategy by itself because it stores encryption keys locally in software, on the database server. Local key storage is especially problematic when regulatory compliance is a consideration.