Data Protection

While there are a variety of ways to protect structured and unstructured data, there are several key issues inherent in some Data Protection approaches. Some of the more notable data protection challenges include:

• Protecting both Structured and Unstructured Data - Unstructured data, such as a spreadsheet report extracted from the database containing sensitive data, also needs to be considered when evaluating data protection and security
• Reducing Administrative Overhead - Internal database encryption (TDE) solutions require user training and processes that are unique to each database company, a costly and resource-consuming task
• Augmenting Inadequate Policy and Database TDE Key Management - enterprises with large deployments to use the native database key management solutions, since each database server will have separate encryption keys to manage
• Simplifying Legacy Database Migration - It can be difficult or impossible to migrate older database versions to more recent versions offering internal TDE data protection, because of the constraints inherent in the packaged database application
• Improving Performance - The performance overhead required for TDE varies significantly depending on the workload, whether column encryption or tablespace encryption is used