Encryption is widely recognized as the gold standard for protecting data privacy, but encryption is only as strong as its key management. Critical credential files such as Oracle wallet files ...

Against this backdrop, Oracle announced Oracle Key Vault, a software appliance designed to securely manage encryption keys and credential files in the enterprise data center. What is needed, said ...

nCipher recently announced the integration of its nShield and netHSM key management solutions with Transparent Data Encryption, part of the Oracle Database 11g Advanced Security option.

The appliance is an x86 server running Oracle Linux and the Oracle database, with all of the Oracle Database security features—such as auditing, access control, and encryption—enabled.

Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it's stored, or as it has become popular to say, "is at rest." ...