Advanced encryption that locks down ‘underlying data’ arrives to support ‘digital transformation’

May 22, 2018

May 22, 2018

Encrypting data kept in storage (data at rest) as well as data as it is being transported from one server to another (data in transit) has become a standard business practice.

Yet there remains a singular security gap in the way companies collect, store, access and analyze business data, both on premises and, especially, in the cloud.

To do a simple database search — or to complete more sophisticated tasks, such as data analytics — stored data must first be decrypted. Or put another way, encrypting data often breaks applications…

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