Oracle Advanced Security Encrypts Oracle Applications Data

Continuing to deliver enhanced data protection to the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle’s Siebel CRM and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application customers, Oracle has announced that Oracle Advanced Security, an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, transparently encrypts all application data stored in an Oracle Database tablespace.

Customers that use the Transparent Data Encryption feature of Oracle Advanced Security can now encrypt entire data sets used by Oracle Applications for data privacy protection and to help meet regulatory requirements.

Full Encryption for Oracle Application Data

Oracle’s Transparent Data Encryption provides increased protection for application data stored in the database (tablespace), without requiring enterprises to know, which fields contain sensitive or regulated data, helping reduce deployment time and effort.

It uses standards-based encryption algorithms such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES). As Oracle’s Transparent Data Encryption automatically performs all cryptographic operations inside the Oracle Database, no changes to existing applications are required.

Oracle Advanced Security also works with Oracle Advanced Compression enabling Oracle Database 11g customers to encrypt application data after compression – providing both data protection and storage savings.

By encrypting data at rest in the database as well as when it leaves the database over the network or during backups, Oracle Advanced Security provides a solution for data in transit and at rest encryption.
Part of Oracle’s portfolio of database security solutions, Oracle Advanced Security helps organisations comply with privacy and regulatory mandates such as Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well as numerous breach notification laws.

Vipin Samar, vice president of Database Security, Oracle, said, “Using the Transparent Data Encryption feature of Oracle Advanced Security in conjunction with Oracle Database 11g, customers can now encrypt not just select fields or columns, but all the application data - enabling a greater level of data privacy protection.”