Vormetric SQL Server encryption safeguards sensitive data in Microsoft SQL Server databases
Whether your goal is securing intellectual property, complying with privacy or regulatory mandates, or simply guarding the organization’s brand against reputational damage, SQL server database encryption is critical. The Vormetric Data Security Platform enables you to encrypt and secure sensitive assets in your Microsoft SQL Server databases, while avoiding the challenges traditionally associated with this form of encryption.
Microsoft SQL Server offers Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) functionality, which performs all encryption operations within the database itself. This results in a significant impact on database server resources
In most organizations, MS SQL Server will be just one of a number of areas where encryption is needed. Because SQL Server TDE only supports SQL Server encryption, this means separate products, training and workflows for multiple encryption implementations, increasing the cost and administrative effort associated with server encryption.
SQL Server TDE only offers minimal capabilities for managing encryption keys. Given that each instance of SQL Server requires a separate encryption key, having separate, disparately supported key managers results in a high degree of complexity, and exacerbates the risks of having keys lost or stolen.
Vormetric Transparent Encryption offers the capabilities you need to employ strong database encryption, with minimal effort and performance implications. With Vormetric Transparent Encryption, you can secure sensitive assets in your Microsoft SQL Server databases, and in all the other databases running across your enterprise.
For organizations that need to apply more granular encryption, including at the column or field level within databases, Thales e-Security offers Vormetric Application Encryption. Vormetric Application Encryption simplifies the integration of encryption into existing corporate applications. The product features standards-based APIs, which are used to perform cryptographic and key management operations.
For enterprises that have chosen to use SQL Server TDE in their SQL Server environments, Thales offers secure and efficient cryptographic key management. Vormetric Key Management can centrally manage keys for SQL Server TDE, all Thales e-Security products, Oracle TDE and other Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)-compliant encryption platforms. As a result, organizations can centrally and securely manage all their encryption keys, while streamlining key administration efforts.
While SQL Server TDE can protect data within the database, Vormetric's SQL Server database encryption solutions secure data both inside and outside of the database. We also provide database encryption for IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL and Sybase. Thales e-Security solutions secure data on Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems, and they offer coverage of physical, virtual and cloud-based servers.
By offering a single console for managing encryption policies and cryptographic keys across a number of environments and technologies, Vormetric encryption solutions from Thales minimize administrative overhead. With this unified coverage, Thales helps security teams avoid database encryption silos, reduce costs and apply security policies more broadly and consistently.
Compared to SQL Server TDE, Vormetric encryption offers far superior performance. With Vormetric's Oracle encryption solution, encryption and decryption is performed at the optimal location: in the file system or volume manager. Further, the Vormetric SQL encryption solution can take advantage of microprocessor encryption technology, such as Intel AES-NI, to further minimize the performance overhead of encryption.
The Protecting Sensitive Data In and Around a SQL Server Database technical white paper provides an overview of the sensitive files in and around the Microsoft SQL Server database that enterprises need to secure in order to achieve optimal database security.
The Vormetric Data Security Platform makes it efficient to manage data-at-rest security across your entire organization. Built on an extensible infrastructure, Vormetric Data Security Platform products can be deployed individually, while sharing efficient, centralized key management.
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Vormetric Transparent Encryption delivers data-at-rest encryption, privileged user access controls and security intelligence logs to proactively meet compliance reporting requirements for structured databases and unstructured files. With Vormetric Transparent Encryption, IT and security professionals can efficiently safeguard more data, in more environments, and against more threats as sensitive data moves into cloud deployments, big data platforms, virtualized systems and more.
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Vormetric Encryption delivers what we need it to do – without any fuss or drama – knowing it’s in place is one less thing to worry about.Albert AvilaBusiness Solutions Specialist, Fujitsu America, Inc.
Thales e-Security is our standard. Whenever an encryption solution is needed, the answer is always, ‘let’s start with Thales e-Security.Damian McDonaldVice President of Global Information Security, Becton, Dickinson and Company
There is absolutely no noticeable impact on the performance or usability of applications. I am very excited at how easy the solution is to deploy and it has always performed flawlessly.Christian MuusDirector of Security for Teleperformance EMEA
Implementing Vormetric has given our own clients an added level of confidence in the relationship they have with us; they know we’re serious about taking care of their data.Audley Deansenior director of Information Security,
BMC Software
Vormetric’s approach of coupling access control with encryption is a very powerful combination. We use it to demonstrate to clients our commitment to preserving the security and integrity of their test cases, data and designs.David VargasInformation Security Architect
Cadence Design Systems
My concern with encryption was the overhead on user and application performance. With Thales e-Security, people have no idea it’s even running.Karl MudraCIO
Delta Dental of Missouri
The Vormetric solution not only solved all of our encryption needs but alleviated any fears of the complexity and overhead of managing the environment once it was in place.Joseph Johnson,chief information security officer CHS
As a global payment solutions and commerce enablement leader, Verifone’s strategy is to develop and deploy “best in class” payment solutions and services that meet or exceed global security standards and help our clients securely accept electronic payments across all channels of commerce. We… Joe Majka,Chief Security Officer
