Securing Oracle Exadata Data with CipherTrust - Solution Brief

Optimized, high-performing databases are essential for all 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 data privacy and security regulations. 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 TDE on Exadata encrypts data at the tablespace with very little impact on the applications accessing that protected data. While TDE secures data at rest, 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. 

Fortunately, Thales solves this problem for Oracle TDE On Exadata customers with its CipherTrust Data Security Platform.