Encryption of Data at Rest

Encryption of data at rest provides data security by allowing you to encrypt sensitive data such as social security numbers and credit card numbers, which are saved in a database. This feature ensures that data is kept safe if the storage medium is stolen. It also helps in addressing security-related regulatory compliance issues.

Infor Lawson does not provide advice or technical details about how data encryption is implemented. Refer to your RDBMS provider for implementation details.

The Microsoft SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature performs real-time I/O encryption and decryption of Microsoft SQL Server data and log files, protecting the data at rest. This means that TDE encrypts an entire database rather than specific tables or columns. Definitions of the encryption keys and methods are stored in a master database.

Before applying encryption of data at rest in Lawson, you must create a Certificate or Asymmetric Key (used to encrypt the TDE key) and enable TDE on a database. You then create a Lawson database space for the encrypted database, and assign all Lawson data to that space.