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Oracle® Advanced Security for Data Encryption and Centralized Key Management

Oracle® Advanced Security for Data Encryption and Centralized Key Management
Submitted by UKOCN on 21 April, 2009 - 16:00.

Customers Can Transparently Encrypt Sensitive Data without Changing Applications

Redwood Shores, CA - April 21, 2009

News Facts

Continuing to deliver comprehensive data protection, Oracle® Advanced Security is now certified with leading hardware security modules (HSM) from SafeNet, the nCipher product line from Thales, as well as enterprise key management capability from RSA, Oracle announced today.

By using the Transparent Data Encryption feature of Oracle Advanced Security for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition with a certified HSM product, customers can now secure their Transparent Data Encryption master keys by storing them on high assurance network attached devices.

The open PKCS#11 standard based integration allows organizations to transparently manage their Oracle Transparent Data Encryption master keys centrally, taking advantage of advanced key management features such as secret splitting and key escrow that are typically provided by HSM devices.

In conjunction with Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database 11g provides the industry's most advanced data encryption capabilities with support for centralized key management on FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 compliant HSM devices.

To read the full Oracle press release click here

Supporting Resources

About Oracle Database Security

Data Sheet: Oracle Advanced Security

Oracle Transparent Data Encryption Best Practices

Oracle Security Inside Out Blog

About Oracle Database Security

For more than 30 years, Oracle has led the industry in securing sensitive data. Oracle Database 11g addresses today's data security challenges from data encryption, access control, and data classification, to audit and compliance reporting, as well as secure deployments and data masking. The comprehensive portfolio of security options for Oracle Database 11g, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Data Masking, and Oracle Audit Vault, helps organizations to transparently safeguard against data breaches and to achieve regulatory compliance without requiring changes to existing applications. To learn more about how to protect data with Oracle Database 11g today, please visit: http://www.oracle.com/database/security.


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