DB 11gR1 Tablespace Encryption certified with E-Business Suite 12

Oracle Advanced Security transparent data encryption (TDE) provides robust encryption solutions to safeguard sensitive data against unauthorized access at the operating system level or through theft of hardware or backup media. TDE helps address privacy and PCI requirements by protecting personally identifiable information such as social security numbers and credit card numbers.

Unlike most database encryption solutions, TDE is completely transparent to existing applications with no triggers, views or other application changes required. Data is transparently encrypted when written to disk and transparently decrypted after an application user has successfully authenticated, and passed all authorization checks. Authorization checks include verifying the user has the necessary select and update privileges on the application table and checking Database Vault, Label Security and Virtual Private Database enforcement policies. Existing database backup routines will continue to work, with the data remaining encrypted in the backup. For encryption of entire database backups, TDE can be used in combination with Oracle RMAN.

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What is Tablespace Encryption?

Oracle Advanced Security in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 includes support for tablespace encryption. When a tablespace is created through Enterprise Manager or on the command line, an option now exists to specify that the file be encrypted on the file system. When new data is added to the new tablespace using the insert command or datapump, entire tables will be transparently encrypted. When the database reads data blocks from the encrypted tablespace it will transparently decrypt the data blocks. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 environments can be migrated to encrypted tablespaces. For more information, please refer to Using TDE Tablespace Encryption with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Oracle Metalink Note 828229.1).

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Prerequisites & Interoperability

  • For prerequisites and interoperability, refer to the relevant Oracle Metalink Notes listed in the documentation section below.

Platforms certified

  • Linux x86 (32-bit)
  • Linux x86-64 (64 bit)
  • Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit)
  • IBM AIX Based Systems (64-bit)
  • HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)

Documentation: Oracle Metalink Note 828229.1 – Using TDE Tablespace Encryption with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

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