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Vertica by itself , no voltage integration. does it have data encrypted at rest by default?

  • January 21, 2022
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jlamarre15

does the customer need to configure SecureData/Voltage to have encryption at rest implemented? I would think any data at rest needs to be encrypted. we did this with oracle using Vormetric. which was at the disk level.

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Jim_Knicely
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  • January 21, 2022

Hi,

Currently you can use SecureData/Voltage to encryption at rest by column. On the road map is a feature to encrypt data at rest by table.

The cool thing about Voltage is the FPE feature.

Please let us know if you have any specific questions.


prad33p2301
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  • January 19, 2024

Hi @Jim_Knicely , is this feature of encrypting data at rest by table now implemented? Is this part of v12.x?


Bryan_H
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  • January 19, 2024

Built-in encryption at rest is still a roadmap item. Please file a support case if this is a requirement for your application.


Sergey_Cherepan_1
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Very straightforward solution is to encrypt disks on OS level. This is a very standard approach, supported by linux out of box.
Encryption in Vertica is nice to have, but I would not bother with it, in favour of OS-level encryption.