Encryption

Encryption is the process of converting information into a cipher or a code so that it cannot be readable to all other people except those who hold a key for the cipher text. The cipher text or encoded text is called as encrypted data.

State of databases protection :

1. At Rest – data may be stored in a database or in backend tape

2. At Transit – data travelling across the network which dictates different encryption solutions for the data in transit.

What is Encryption? (& How it Works to Protect Your Data)

Types of Encryption Target

1. File-level Encryption

2. Cell-level Encryption

3. Column-level Encryption

4. Row-level Encryption

5. Table space-level Encryption