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MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs

posted by martyb on Friday April 03 2020, @12:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the putting-at-all-tqqq- dept.

Fnord666 writes:

MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs[:

In December 2019, popular document database MongoDB added a fairly radical new feature to the platform: field-level database encryption. At first glance, one might wonder whether this is a meaningful feature in a world that already has at-rest storage encryption and in-flight transport encryption—but after a little closer analysis, the answer is a resounding yes.

One of MongoDB's first customers to use the new technology is Apervita, a vendor that handles confidential data for well over 2,000 hospitals and nearly 2 million individual patients. Apervita worked side by side with MongoDB during development and refinement of the technology.

Since reaching general availability in December, the technology has also been adopted by several government agencies and Fortune 50 companies, including some of the largest pharmacies and insurance providers.

This is a good thing. Field Level Encryption (FLE) is a must for any DB these days.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 03 2020, @09:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 03 2020, @09:45PM (#978881)

    Regardless of how one should feel, he should be hailed as a hero? Those two halves of the sentence do not agree with each other.

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 06 2020, @06:10PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday April 06 2020, @06:10PM (#979721) Journal

    No, sorry. Regardless of how one feels if Snowden is a hero or not this type of encryption is intended to prevent a Snowden-like infiltration of a dB occur.

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