Enhance data security with a gradual approach, focusing on areas like field-level and whole file encryption. Adopt data encryption and minimize day-to-day disruptions.

Encryption is one of the most effective data security strategies, alongside access control, software updates, and network segmentation. However, adding encryption to an existing tech stack can be challenging. Data pipelines aren’t typically designed to handle encryption and decryption, leading to additional migration work, operational complexity, and higher compute costs.

Data encryption presents its own challenges in modern times. While at-rest and in-transit encryption are common, they often fall short of preventing data breaches within the data store itself. Unlike typical encryption in TLS, where AES and RSA are effective for securing data during transmission, applying these methods to long-term data storage introduces unique challenges.

Currently, there is no clear strategy for maintaining long-lived encryption keys. Managing keys and performing key rotations can be error-prone and costly. The high computational cost of processing encrypted data further complicates maintaining secure encryption over time. This highlights the need for data-specific security ...