Protegrity's Defiance Data Protection System For Teradata Warehouse

Database and Network Journal, June, 2008

Protegrity Corporation and Teradata have announced new cryptography performance of over 6 million decryptions and over 9 million encryptions per second, enabling customers to maximise data protection while minimising impact on business operations.

"Our research shows that businesses worry that data protection may impact application performance. These test results show that the partnership between Teradata and Protegrity delivers proven enterprise solutions that help customers protect data and achieve regulatory compliance with industry-leading system performance," said Protegrity.

The Protegrity Defiance[R] Data Protection System uses Teradata User Defined Functions (UDFs) to embed encryption/decryption functionality in the database.

Teradata's high performance UDF implementation and parallel architecture provides highly efficient execution, and then scales that performance linearly as the system grows in size.

The test included Defiance Data Protection System utilising industry standard strong AES-256 encryption and Teradata 12 on a six-node (12 Intel[R] Xeon[R] processors) Teradata 5550 platform.

Since 2004, Protegrity and Teradata have collaborated on enterprise-level data encryption and management. In June 2005, the companies announced a global partnership to deliver database security for Teradata customers.

www. teradata.com., www.protegrity.com.

Ulf Mattsson, chief technology officer with data security management specialist, Protegrity

Ulf Mattsson is chief technology officer with Protegrity having created the initial architecture of Protegrity's databae security technology, for which the company owns several key patents. His extensive IT and security industry experience includes 20 years with IBM as a manager of software development and a consulting resource to IBM's Research and Development organisation, in the areas of IT Architecture and IT Security.

Ulf holds a degree in electrical engineering from Polhem University, a degree in Finance from University of Stockholm and a master's degree in physics from Chalmers University of Technology

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