Progress Software Corporation

A brief introduction: OpenEdge RDBMS, an embeddable relational database produced by Progress Software Corp. Leading analyst firm IDC in its latest report Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2010-2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares, called the platform for developing business applications Progress OpenEdge the world's best among "pure (pure-play) embedded database in 2008, the fifth consecutive year. In December 2009, Progress Software Corporation announced the release into production versions of OpenEdge 10.2B. On one of the features of the new version and will be discussed in this article. Version OpenEdge 10.2B introduced a new security mechanism in the database, called Transparent Data Encryption (Transparent Data Encryption). As part of security strategies, transparent encryption provides data confidentiality, in a state of rest in the OpenEdge database, regardless of where the base and who is holding a copy of it.

The very process of encryption is carried out in parallel activities of a user when he is processing data. Thus, the user does not need to be distracted by any further action related to encryption, since this process is automatic and completely transparent to him. Database administrator just enough to activate the Transparent Data Encryption, configure the keystore and encryption policies, thereby defining the database objects that will be encrypted. Note, modify the existing application is not necessary. Reasonable question that you may have - why do I live? ". Assume that you have is reliable in terms of restricting access operating system you use passwords longer than ten characters to choose which nearly impossible.