OPINION
TURNING THE TDE
Dave Stokes
is a technology evangelist at Percona.
You might not get excited about encryption, but it matters. Organisations around the world hold data on individuals and companies, and it needs to be kept secure in motion and at rest. However, we don’t have all the tools we might like to work with. PostgreSQL lacks transparent data encryption (TDE), which allows users to work with data transparently and easily without sacrificing security. Proprietary counterparts like Oracle and SQL Server have this feature, yet PostgreSQL encryption is limited to cluster-wide implementations.