The future of data protection is closer than you may think and it involves a new application of a current technology. It is encryption, used in a new way, to exploit the power of computing. Enter the world of pervasive encryption.

What is and how does it work? How can it help to make data more secure?

Pervasive Encryption is a new approach to extensive encryption of both data-in-flight and at-rest, enabled by administrative policy controls in mainframe systems. In the past, for example, the mainframe data encryption rested on on-chip cryptography and cryptocards, that limited de facto software-hardware interactions. Pervasive encryption enables customers to encrypt data in databases, data sets, or disk levels.