How To Guides

Ingrian® offers organizations a range of documents, including high level overviews and detailed technical papers, that offer insights into implementing encryption as a means to ensure data privacy. Follow the links below to access the guides you need:

• How to Secure Data in HP® NonStop Environments
• How to Secure IBM® Mainframe Applications with Ingrian
• How to Secure Data in SAP Environments
• How to Achieve Data Privacy
• How to do Database Encryption
• How to Secure Sensitive Data in PeopleSoft Applications
• How to Evaluate Encryption Solutions
• How Hardware Security Modules Can Optimize Key Protection
• How to Protect the Cryptographic Keys that Protect Your Data
• How to Improve Security through Intelligent Certificate Administration

If you have questions about other data privacy, security, or encryption issues that aren’t listed here, please e-mail us at info@ingrian.com. We’ll try to provide the solution information you need as quickly as possible.

How to Secure Data in HP NonStop Environments

HP NonStop servers represent the core business-critical infrastructures that power the vast majority of the world’s electronic commerce—and today, organizations must secure the data on which this commerce is based. Ingrian Networks and comForte have delivered a combined solution that for the first time makes database encryption practical and cost effective in NonStop environments.

To learn more, download “Database Encryption in HP NonStop Environments.” This solution brief outlines the challenges of encrypting data in HP NonStop enviroments, and it describes how Ingrian and comForte help address these challenges.

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How to Secure IBM Mainframe Applications with Ingrian

The Ingrian mainframe solution allows customers to encrypt sensitive information in z/OS environments leveraging Ingrian’s enterprise key management. The core benefits include security, performance, flexibility, manageability, and availability.

To learn more, download “Securing IBM Mainframe Applications with Ingrian.” This solution brief offers an overview of the challenges of encrypting data in z/OS environment.

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How to Secure Data in SAP Environments

Encryption has become a clear mandate for any organization that collects or processes payment data. Yet making encryption work within an enterprise has traditionally been a challenge, particularly for large organizations with SAP applications. Today, these organizations can leverage a combined solution from Ingrian and Princeton Payment Solutions (PPS) that makes it easy to gain the security benefits of encryption, while minimizing its costs and business impact.

To learn more, download “Credit Card Encryption in SAP Environments.” This solution brief offers an overview of the challenges of encrypting data in SAP environments, and details how the combined solution from Ingrian and PPS addresses these challenges, enabling organizations to ensure data privacy and compliance with PCI.

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How to Achieve Data Privacy

Complete data privacy requires security at every point of the enterprise—including while data is at rest in storage systems (NAS, SAN, or tape); while it is in transit between servers, databases, and storage devices; and while data is being accessed or processed by applications and databases. Ingrian enables organizations to secure data at these three points, and so ensure complete data privacy. Ingrian offers two in-depth white papers that offer insights into the process of implementing data privacy solutions in the enterprise.

Achieving Data Privacy in the Enterprise: An Introductory Guide to Implementing Data Privacy Solutions

This white paper provides an overview of data privacy, offering a look at the current threats to data privacy, potential data privacy deployment scenarios, and key considerations and steps in successfully implementing data privacy solutions.

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Data Privacy in the Enterprise: Best Practices for Implementation

This document offers an overview of how to address data privacy in a comprehensive fashion, outlining the key building blocks of a data privacy implementation, and offering detailed guidance for each of these areas.

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How to Ensure Compliance with Credit Card Security Policies

Merchants, data processors, and any other vendors that manage credit card holder data today must adhere to strict policies for ensuring that data is secure at all times. Whether they’re working with American Express, MasterCard, Visa, or any other credit card vendor, these organizations face steep penalties, including fines and lost business, if this data is stolen. Ingrian can help address many of the critical security challenges of adhering to credit card issuer policies pertaining to protecting data privacy within the enterprise.

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How to Encrypt Critical Data in Databases

As security breaches and the demands of privacy legislation continue to increase, organizations are starting to encrypt critical data inside corporate databases. Historically, however, data encryption has posed many complexities.

Ingrian Networks significantly eases the process of database encryption. Ingrian DataSecure Platforms work seamlessly with leading databases—including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle—delivering capabilities for securely and efficiently managing encryption. DataSecure encrypts data in the database at the column level, and can be used to secure such information as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and email addresses.

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How to Secure Sensitive Data in PeopleSoft Applications

For most enterprises today, encrypting sensitive data at rest is becoming a critical mandate to ensure the privacy of sensitive consumer and employee data. By offering a means for PeopleSoft customers to seamlessly introduce encryption, Ingrian enables organizations to cost-effectively address a critical security need. Ingrian solutions encrypt sensitive data at the application layer, and can ensure that data remains secure as it is saved to databases and storage systems—and as a result, organizations can better meet compliance and security mandates.

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How to Evaluate Data Encryption Solutions

For encryption to adequately and cost-effectively address security gaps, organizations must manage their implementation in a way that is best suited to their specific infrastructure and security policies. One of the key decisions confronting organizations considering data at rest encryption is whether to deploy software-based products or hardware-based solutions such as Ingrian DataSecure Platforms. Another range of choices includes deciding whether to encrypt data in a database at the column level or at the file level.

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How to Address Data Privacy in Credit Unions

Since NCUA 748 was passed in 2001, one of its key principles remains that credit unions must “ensure the security and confidentiality of member records.” While this guiding principle has remained the same, the nature of the threats to this data, and the steps required to protect this data, have changed significantly in recent years. This solution brief looks at the changing nature of security threats, it looks at specific guidelines 748 provides for protecting member information, and it outlines how Ingrian can help address these guidelines, and so ensure data privacy within credit unions.

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How to Address the Information Security Mandates of Sarbanes Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley has had a tremendous impact on the way corporations are managed. One of the critical implications of Sarbanes-Oxley is the premium it has placed on safeguarding and restricting access to sensitive data inside an organization. This document offers an overview of some of the specific information security aspects of this act, and outlines how Ingrian’s data privacy solutions can help address these critical mandates.

Click here to access the solution brief (PDF: 218k).

How Hardware Security Modules Can Optimize Key Protection

The U.S. Government’s FIPS 140-2 Level 3 specification outlines clear requirements that ensure the highest level of protection for cryptographic keys. The government requires FIPS-compliance, but is this level of protection necessary for other businesses? The answer may be yes, especially if your business is involved in securing sensitive data for storage on internal servers and databases. Take a moment to learn more about how an integrated Hardware Security Module can deliver unsurpassed key protection

Click here to access the solutions brief (pdf: 740k).

How to Protect the Cryptographic Keys that Protect Your Data

Cryptography is the best way to ensure complete application transaction privacy—in transit across the Internet and in storage within your enterprise. But in the end, your sensitive application data is only as secure as the cryptographic keys that protect your data. Too often, these keys are stored on servers that are unsecure and vulnerable to attack. Ingrian solves this problem with a hardened security architecture that ensures cryptographic keys are always protected—even at the administrative level.

Click here to access the solutions brief (pdf: 427k).

How to Improve Security through Intelligent Certificate Administration

Digital certificates are the most commonly used tool for validating credentials and establishing trusted connections between two parties on the Web. Therefore, proper administration and use of certificates is a critical aspect of a comprehensive enterprise security policy. Too often, certificates are not properly handled, resulting in potential vulnerabilities in the security infrastructure. Ingrian solves this problem with a very comprehensive approach to certificate administration, thereby enhancing both internal and external application transaction security.

Click here to access the solutions brief (pdf: 237k).