Protegrity and Teradata’s new high speed encryptions

By Alan Harten

Protegrity Corporation, a provider of data security management solutions, and Teradata, enterprise data warehousing provider, have announced a new cryptography performance of over 6 million decryptions and over 9 million encryptions per second.

The Protegrity Defiance Data Protection System uses Teradata User Defined Functions, or UDFs to embed encryption/decryption functionality in the database.

Teradata’s UDF implementation and parallel architecture provides execution, and then scales that performance linearly as the system grows in size.

The test included Defiance Data Protection System utilising industry standard strong AES-256 encryption and Teradata 12 on a six-node (12 Intel Xeon processors) Teradata 5550 platform.

Since 2004, Protegrity and Teradata have collaborated on enterprise-level data encryption and management.

In June 2005, the companies announced a global partnership to deliver database security for Teradata customers.