Vormetric Encryption Secures Information Stored in Big Data Platforms

Vormetric announced that its Vormetric Encryption can now be deployed to protect structured and unstructured information stored in Big Data platforms including Hadoop, Cassandra and MongoDB.

Vormetric Encryption allows enterprises to encrypt sensitive data on servers, control access to that information and report on who is accessing the protected data. It supports all of the major platforms such as Linux, Unix and Windows, and can be used in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

The service allows enterprises to have a common solution protecting both structured and unstructured data with integrated key management.

Big Data are often targeted for malicious parties because of the size. They’re also the repository to an organization’s toxic data. If one can breach a company’s perimeter defenses, the large amount of data stored in one place can be accessed unrestrictedly.

But with Vormetric Encryption one can let enterprises transparently encrypt and control access to Big Data. Vormetric has reportedly helped hundreds of the world’s most trusted brands and government agencies protect sensitive information, obtain safe harbor from data breach disclosure and comply with a myriad of regulatory data security requirements, including PCI (News - Alert) DSS, Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA.

“Enterprises are placing a tremendous amount of accumulated data and new data in single huge repositories using Big Data tools in order to turn it into actionable business intelligence,” said Ashvin Kamaraju, vice president of product development and technology strategy at Vormetric. “Much of this data is sensitive in nature and would trigger regulatory consequences if it were compromised, yet it is being housed in non-relational data stores with virtually no controls. Vormetric Data Security allows enterprises to implement and extract business value from Big Data deployments without sacrificing data security or violating privacy and regulatory compliance requirements.”

Benefits of Vormetric Encryption include near zero performance overhead through software optimization; application and database transparent security; highly configurable security and policy enforcement and strong encryption; and centralized policy management and audit.