Product Overview

Ingrian DataSecure Platforms

Ingrian DataSecure Platforms provide an intelligent, cost-effective way to encrypt critical data in applications and databases. As a result, organizations can better ensure that they are compliant with legislative and policy mandates for security, and mitigate the risks of data thefts.

• Platform Components

Introduction

Enterprises have become adept at harnessing their vast information repositories to become more informed, more responsive, and more successful. In today’s climate, however, the success of a business hinges just as much on how well it protects its data as how well it utilizes that data. Here are a few reasons:

• Devastating security breaches continue to make headlines—frequently with corporate databases being exposed by internal staff as well as external attackers.
• Consumer decisions are increasingly dictated by concerns for privacy protection and fears of identity theft; organizations need to establish and maintain trust or customers will go elsewhere.
• Organizations must contend with an onslaught of privacy legislation and security mandates that cut across industries and geographies.

Securing sensitive data has never been more vital, yet, in spite of the billions spent each year on IT security, data theft remains alarmingly common and shows no signs of abating. Why? While traditional, network security mechanisms—firewalls, IDSs, and other products—remain vital, they’re not foolproof, and they’re not designed to address many of the threats that confront organizations today.

To ensure that sensitive data remains secure, both from internal and external threats, many organizations are taking a proactive approach to ensure data privacy—and turning to Ingrian Networks to achieve this objective. Ingrian DataSecure Platforms deliver sophisticated capabilities for doing database encryption. These products feature granular encryption, seamless integration, and centralized security management—enabling organizations to eliminate an array of critical security threats, with unprecedented ease and cost effectiveness.

Advantages of the DataSecure platform include:

• Robust security. Addresses a broad range of threats with capabilities for granular database encryption, secure policy and key management, sophisticated administration, segregation of duties, strong AAA support, and more.
• Streamlined implementation. Integration is automated and transparent to applications; administration is intuitive; and because all keys and policies are managed on a centralized appliance, ongoing maintenance is streamlined.
• Scalability and reliability. Offloads processing-intensive cryptographic functions from servers, and offers throughput and high availability for even the most demanding environments.
• Flexible, multi-tier integration. Can be integrated in heterogeneous environments and be deployed at the Web, application, and/or database layer.

Platform Components

The Ingrian DataSecure Platform is comprised of three components:

• The DataSecure appliance, a dedicated hardware product,
• The Network-Attached Encryption (NAE) Server, which runs on the DataSecure appliance, and
• The Ingrian NAE Connector, a software provider that is installed on the Web server, application server, or database that interfaces with the DataSecure appliance.

DataSecure Appliance

The DataSecure appliance is a dedicated hardware product that is designed specifically for security and cryptographic processing. The DataSecure appliance is offered with redundant system components (including dual CPUs, power supplies, and fans), multiple NICs, and onboard options for high availability. The appliance features an optional integrated FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant hardware security module, providing tamper-resistant protection of cryptographic keys.

Network-Attached Encryption Server

The Network-Attached Encryption (NAE) Server provides facilities for executing a large volume of highly specialized cryptographic activities. The NAE server executes a range of security-related tasks, including processing all cryptographic requests generated by the NAE connectors residing on applications and databases, doing integrity checks to ensure critical company information and other application data has not been modified, securely storing and managing cryptographic keys, and centrally logging all cryptographic requests and activity on the appliance.

Ingrian NAE Connector

Ingrian NAE Connectors provides standards-based cryptographic interfaces that enable the protection of user-defined data within the Web server, application server, or database, allowing effective integration of security at the business logic layer. These small software components are designed to be installed on servers and databases that interface with the Ingrian appliance. All NAE connectors also have embedded logic that provides load balancing, health checking, and connection pooling among a cluster of redundant DataSecure appliances.

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