Why Use Data Encryption Software?
Large to Medium and Small Businesses – DON'T fall prey to the myths:
Protecting data from nameless, faceless hackers still leaves your customer-sensitive information at high risk.
Commercial Developers – DON'T be a statistic:
Protecting your intellectual property is more than your responsibility; it's a business necessity.
| ---> | The statistics are overwhelming: 70 percent of information theft comes from the "inside". |
| ---> | Protecting your organization's database – "data at rest" – is your responsibility. |
| ---> | Protecting customer-sensitive data is a necessity in every layer of the organization. |
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DATA RISK SECURITY LIES?
CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, Business Owners, Department Heads.
The 60,000-foot view. YOU are ultimately responsible for protecting the data in your organization's database. Your business, your brand depends on it. While at the ground level you put your organizations data in the hands of the DBA, and rightfully so, keeping a big picture perspective on best practices for preventing unauthorized access to your data is a critical dependency of successful leadership.
How NetLib helps you protect and serve your business. While your DBA might be responsible for deploying security, NetLib's Encryptionizer adds an additional layer of security to make your data unusable if, despite all efforts, someone does get unauthorized access to your raw data. Even best current techniques to prevent unauthorized access to that data can be compromised and despite your DBAs best efforts, "bad guys" do get through. Here are just some of the ways:
- Breaking through your firewall.
- Losing laptops/stolen hard drive.
- Forgetting to wipe clean a discarded hard-drive.
- Copying files to a removable drive before an employee quits or is fired.
- Stealing a backup disk or tape.
Once the data is compromised, you pay the price, not the DBA. Encryptionizer is transparent and easy to deploy with no ongoing administration.
DBAs, Network Administrators
Command control. You control all rights and privileges to a database ("data at rest"). But if someone can get to the raw database files from the server, desktop, laptop, backup media, etc., your control is completely lost!
If it is a SQL Server database, they can simply attach the database to their own SQL Server where they have administrative rights and have complete access. In fact, they can see a lot of information using nothing more than a simple text editor.
If the data is stored in a desktop database, such as DBFs or MDBs, it is even easier for the "bad guys." They can simply use Microsoft Access or any variety of file browsers to see the raw data. The built-in encryption of tools such as MS Access are only helpful if one or two people are using the database: a password known by more than one or two people is no protection at all.
Commercial Developers
Location, location, decompilation! As a developer, once you send your application to your customers, unprotected, you lose control of the location of all data associated with it – that of your intellectual property and your customer's sensitive data. Your problem is actually two-fold: Your customers must protect the data they enter into your application. In addition, you may have your own intellectual property built into your application and database structure that you want protected from the customer. Encryptionizer allows you to bundle encryption with your application to serve this two-fold purpose. If you are developing your application in Access or Visual FoxPro, Encryptionizer can also protect your source code from decompilation!