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Scott_Riser
Level 4
14 years ago
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Encrypt Enterprise Vault data

I have a federal customer with the mandate to encrypt all data at rest; what's the best way to accomplish this with Enterprise Vault? I understand the Hitachi Content Platform can do it but is there any other options. This is a high priority so I would appreciate any ideas.

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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    14 years ago

    encrypt the drive they're on? encrypt it before it gets stored with rights management and what not? use a drive such as what you stated?

    I think the belief is with the OSIS and not having the data and all that stuff it would be difficult to place most of the content together (not impossible though to be fair)

    Maybe a question for symc sales and product management to be honest

  • Merv's avatar
    Merv
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    https aside, i should think at a very basic level bitlocker on windows 2008 should be a fairly simple solution to implement on windows 2008 servers. I've implemented bitlocker on branch servers and it was quite a simple thing and it supports 256. Ofcourse a h/w based solution would be better but in this case even the o/s raid 1 mirror disk on local can be encrypted. Downside will probably be a slight perf hit on the whole setup however going with modern day i7 quadcore and up processors that overhead should be handled easily.

    If you ever get yourself locked out due to TPM compliance issue( change MB etc) or loose the USB key or loose the password decryption can be a nightmare delay though.That said the larger the volume the initial encryption setup takes at least a day or more.