Postgres And Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Security has always been a great concern of Enterprises. Especially, if you have crucial information stored in the database, you would always prefer to have high security around it. Over the years, technologies have evolved and provided better solutions around it. If you have very sensitive information, people try to keep this information encrypted so, that in case, somebody gets access of the system, then they cannot view this information, if they are not authorized. For managing sensitive information, Enterprises use multiple methods: 1. Encrypting specific information. If you are PPAS users, you would like to use DBMS_CRYPTO package which provides a way of encrypting sensitive information in databases. For more information, please refer following link: http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/9.4/oracompat/Database_Compatibility_for_Oracle_Developers_Guide.1.178.html# For PostgreSQL, users can use pgcrypto module. 2. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is anot...