IBM i Encryption
Encryption is one of the most fundamental security techinues for protecting your data. In the event that an unauthorised person gains access to sensitive data, encryption is your final defense against them doing something damaging with it. If your business is governed by regulations such as Singapore’s MAS TRM Guidelines or Personal Data Protection Act or the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)) or the credit card industry’s PCI-DSS regulations then you will have sensitive data that must be encrypted. And when considering what to encrypt you need to be aware not just about the data at rest on our servers, but also data that is sent around our offices and over the internet via emails and file transfer protocol (FTP).
Working with our business partners, JouleTech has a number of solutions that will ensure your IBM i data is secure, whether in motion or at rest.
DATABASE & FILE ENCRYPTION ON IBM i
The IBM i does have some inbuilt encryption APIs, but they are limited, complex to use, and in many cases require modifications to your applications. Our partner solutions enable you to easily encrypt existing and new data in your database files (and on the IFS), as well as allow you to define who is able to view what data and when – whether via applications or SQL and other data viewing tools. And we can achieve this without making changes to your applications!
Data In Motion - Secure Managed File Transfer
Moving unencrypted sensitive data around the office or over the internet via email or with tools like FTP or Dropbox and so forth is highly questionable and not neccesary. With the use of a powerful, easy to use, and award winning Secure Managed File Transfer solution that runs natively on the IBM i (and AIX, Linux, Windows, Amazon EC2, Mac OS, Microsoft Azure, and VMWare), JouleTech can help ensure that your data in motion is secured with such protocols as SFTP, FTPS, AS2, HTTPS, and AES.
Our partner Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution is easy to learn, allows for both manual ad-hoc and automated scheduled transfers, and provides audit trails. The solution also allows you to create multi-step work-flows that can be integrated into existing processes, and to incorporate success and exception notifications (via system messages, emails, text messages, MQ etc).
Developed with ease of use for the end user in mind, this is not just a tool for the IT team but one that can be easily learned and used by individual business units.
ASP Encryption
IBM i ASP Encryption encrypts everything on the ASP, with the benefits of:
- Protecting your data in event of theft of the disk
- Protecting data during transmission in a cross-site mirroring scenario
- Reducing the need to sanitize the disk drive in case of resale or return.
tape encryption
JouleTech has solutions that enable you to encrypt your data as you move it to tape for onsite or offsite storage.
In addition to the security, this solution provides the following benefits:
- Saves space, and ultimately storage and hardware costs, by compressing your data before it is encrypted
- Data does not have to be degaussed or overwritten with x’FF patterns at the end of the life or sale of the tape or cartridge
Contact Us today to learn more about how to encrypt your data!