Privileged users are those granted substantial access to corporate network resources to be able to perform their routine duties. But if these users are malicious, or if their credentials are stolen, it can lead to a major data breach.

Another dangerous data security attack bypasses the database and targets the data at rest in underlying servers or physical storage. These frequently include the organization’s unstructured files and structured databases, query reports, log files and other data sets that might contain sensitive or regulated information.

• Thales high-performance encryption compliments MongoDB security. Vormetric Transparent Encryption protects the environment at the OS and file system level with encryption, access controls and security intelligence information required for compliance and protection for malicious insiders and advanced malware such as advanced persistent threats (APTs)
• Vormetric Application Encryption enables developers to easily build encryption for individual fields (such as social security numbers and credit cards) that are not critical to analysis but are a required component of reports and output into the MongoDB environment.

Vormetric Enterprise Key Management secures and manages encryption keys in the MongoDB environment.

The Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM) can enforce strong separation of duties by requiring the assignment of key and policy management to more than one data security administrator. In this manner, no one person has complete control over security activities, encryption keys, or administration. In addition, the DSM supports two-factor authentication for administrative access.

• Encryption, centralized key management, privileged user access control and security intelligence logs for data-at-rest across the MongoDB environment: ingress data, egress reports, as well as configuration files and audit logs.
• Transparently protect new and complex structured and unstructured data types without application engineering with Vormetric Transparent Encryption.
• Simplify adding document-level encryption with tools that include sample code and API support (Java and C/C++) for MongoDB application integration with Vormetric Application Encryption.
• Generate security intelligence on data access by users, processes and applications accessing data anywhere across the MongoDB infrastructure.
• Maintain SLAs with high-performance encryption and high-availability data security architecture.

Unlike other solutions, this extensible platform is tunable to protect data as granular as specific columns within a relational database or fields within a document in MongoDB. On the other hand, it can protect all the data within a given directory or volume.

The platform supports the broadest range of operating systems and environments in the industry and delivers operations efficiencies through high-performance and centralized management with the Vormetric Data Security Manager (DSM).