Last week I missed this one on Dark Reading. Apparently AppSecInc, the maker of tools such as (the very expensive) AppDetective, have been granted a patent for encrypting databases.
The newly patented Application Security, Inc. invention gives database administrators (DBA’s) the ability apply modern cryptography to the database systems they administer. It provides a transparent encryption infrastructure, which – via a graphical user interface – allows DBAs to select the columns within the database they’d like to encrypt and choose the algorithm they’d like to apply. DBAs can select encryption strength, leveraging a graphical console that allows the creation of working code with simple point-and-click functionality. Database triggers and views are automatically created and implemented with this approach to efficiently encrypt and decrypt data with minimal impact on database performance; to securely manage multiple encryption keys; and to grant and revoke cleartext access to a data column.
Here is a copy of the patent filing.
[tags]AppSecInc, Database Encryption, AppSecInc Patent[/tags]
