Built-in database protective measures aren’t enough – it’s time to reinforce them

⇨ Data remains the most valuable resource for enterprises, necessitating robust security measures that exceed traditional perimeter defenses, particularly as organizations expand their digital services.

⇨ SAP HANA, while providing real-time insights, requires enhanced security solutions like Thales' CipherTrust Transparent Encryption to protect sensitive operational data from internal and external threats.

⇨ Implementing granular access controls and proactive security measures through encryption can significantly improve the scalability, flexibility, and efficiency of business operations while safeguarding critical data.

Despite the cornucopia of software upgrades and tech additions that bombard the enterprise platform industry, data will always remain the most valuable resource. Business-critical data needs to be protected with a combination of different security measures and, with enterprises always looking to expand their digital services to remain competitive, it would be a good idea to seekbeyond traditional data center perimeter security.

While SAP HANA can be the ideal data storage solution by also providing real-time, actionable insights and analytics, its security measures could use some reinforcement – especially knowing how crucial some operational data could be for a business. With the move to cloud computing being a common occurrence for many enterprises, the complexity of trying to keep data secure at all times grows higher.

Despite the best assurances, business operations can still be at risk ofinternal attacks and threats. While a service provider and a customer could have the best working relationship, sometimes peace of mind can come when businesses know that they, and only they, can access their data.

Enterprise security specialist, Thales, can provide protection with CipherTrust Transparent Encryption, a solution that can encrypt important business data while also preventing unauthorized access via key management – an integral tool for protecting SAP HANA databases, both on-premise and in the cloud. SAP HANA data and log volumes are protected at the file system level via policies instituted by a security administrator through the CipherTrust Manager – Thales’ encryption key management system.

Through the CipherTrust Transparent Encryption service, SAP HANA users can create policies that manage and prevent privileged users from accessing data they shouldn’t. The encryption solution can also manage the startup, shutdown and failover of SAP HANA hosts, ensuring that data will always be secured without any interruption. Granular access controls can be introduced to further refine the access levels for privileged users and system administrators.

By providing agile security options for SAP HANA database protection, the CipherTrust Transparent Encryption solution can help enhance scalability, flexibility and efficiency for business operations. Taking a proactive approach to security and cladding yourself in multiple layers of protection, will see any nefarious actors looking to disrupt your business move on to easier prey.