Data Confidentiality

You can secure communications between a client and the SAP Sybase IQ server, or between an SAP Sybase IQ client and the database server using Transport Layer Security (TLS).

SAP Sybase IQ allows you to encrypt your database or columns.

Support of Kerberos authentication, and column encryption is included in the separately licensed SAP Sybase IQ Advanced Security Option.

• Database encryption and decryption
  You can use database encryption to make it more difficult for someone to decipher the data in your database. You can choose to secure your database either with simple or with strong encryption.
• IPv6 Support
  SAP Sybase IQ supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which contains addressing and control information to route packets over the Internet.
• Setting up transport-layer security
  The following steps provide an overview of the tasks required to set up transport-layer security.
• Digital certificates
  You need digital certificates to set up transport-layer security. You can obtain certificates from a certificate authority, or you can create them using the Certificate Creation utility (createcert).