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High-Performance Encryption Key Management
Your Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database is only as secure as your encryption keys. That’s why you need to make the whole process more secure and easier to manage. Thales can help.
Database encryption is a must for organizations that have to comply with legislation protecting customer information, financial transactions, healthcare records, and other highly sensitive information. Yet even encrypted data in the databases can be at risk if there is no centralized plan in place to manage the secure distribution, use, authorization, and storage of the encryption keys that decrypt the information.
Thales hardware security modules (HSMs) integrate quickly and easily with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 utilizing Microsoft’s Extensible Key Management (EKM). EKM enables Thales HSMs to provide key management for multiple databases. Thales HSMs safeguard the keys, affording protection from unauthorized access and ensuring the long-term usability of encrypted data.
Why centralized key management with HSMs
Thales Database Encryption Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL 2008 R2 can help you improve the security of database keys and reduce the cost of meeting PCI compliance requirements in the following ways:
- Gain improved operational efficiency with centralized management of keys across many databases.
- Protect data with the highest level of security with HSMs – FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and Common Criteria EAL4+
- Simplify the secure process of key backup and recovery
- Manage keys by storing them in as few places as possible, reducing the scope of PCI audits
- Gain extra protection with backup and disaster recovery capabilities
- Protect sensitive data in multiple databases – both in current databases and in long-term archive facilities
Whether you’re new to database encryption solutions – or a Microsoft SQL Server user who needs to upgrade from software encryption to a higher level of security with HSMs – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Thales nShield HSM can help you raise the bar of database protection to meet even the strictest compliance regulations.