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 (News - Alert) 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.

Managing the keys of all your valuable resources, be they in the real world or the virtual, can be a hassle. Managing all the encryption keys for an entire enterprise is a harder challenge still. A ...

File/operating system level-encryption is actually implemented outside the database engine -- but it's still a form of database encryption. And it's referred to as "transparent" encryption because it ...