Vormetric Encryption User Guides

Encryption allows enterprises to:

• Encrypt sensitive data and files on servers

• Control access to the encrypted data

• Report who accesses encrypted data

Prerequisites

This feature is restricted to secure cloud servers that run on one of the following operating systems:

• CentOS 6.x

• CentOS 7.x

• Red Hat (RHEL) 6.x

• Red Hat (RHEL) 7.x

• Ubuntu 16.x

• Ubuntu 18.x

• Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 (Standard Edition)

• Windows Server 2016

User Guides

At a high-level, in order to fully use Vormetric Encryption, Armor recommends that you follow the workflow below:

1. Introduction to Vormetric Data Security Manager

2. Create a Symmetric Encryption Key for Vormetric DSM

3. Vormetric Policy Planning
   

4. Create a Starter Policy with Learn Mode
   

5. Introduction to Policy Rules

6. Introduction to GuardPoints and the Copy Method
   
   

Troubleshooting

Use the following guides if you have already created a GuardPoint and are experiencing issues after a reboot.

• Configure Startup Scripts to Access Encrypted PostgreSQL Databases

• Configure Startup Scripts to Access Encrypted MySQL Databases

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