Abstract
The IBM® DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data-at-rest. The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical for you to understand to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data.
This edition of this IBM Redpaper™ publication focuses on IBM Security™ Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager with the DS8000 Release 10.0 code or later and updated DS GUI for encryption functions.
The DS8000 Release 9.2 code introduced support for local key management for data-at-rest encryption and is described in Chapter 7, “Local key management”.
Important: Failure to follow the requirements that are described in this publication can result in an encryption deadlock.
The DS8000 system supports Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) data object encryption. With TCT encryption, data is encrypted before it is transmitted to the cloud. The data remains encrypted in cloud storage and is decrypted after it is transmitted back to the IBM DS8000.
The DS8000 system also supports Fibre Channel Endpoint Security when communicating with IBM z15 and newer Z systems, which includes encryption of data that is in-flight, as well as link authentication.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Encryption overview
Chapter 2. External key managers
Chapter 3. IBM DS8000 encryption mechanisms
Chapter 4. Planning and guidelines for IBM DS8000 encryption
Chapter 5. Implementing IBM DS8000 encryption
Chapter 6. Maintaining the IBM DS8000 encryption environment
Chapter 7. Local key management
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