MySQL Disk Encryption with LUKS

 Aug 02, 2017
 Percona Technical Webinar
  Matthew Boehm

Clients require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA or PHI. These standards require data managed by MySQL to be encrypted "at rest." InnoDB’s built-in encryption features work, but there are some caveats to that solution.

In this talk, you'll see how to encrypt your entire disk to protect everything from data, redo logs and binary logs.

About the Author

Matthew Boehm

Matthew joined Percona in the fall of 2012 as a MySQL consultant. His areas of knowledge include the traditional Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack, memcached, MySQL Cluster, massive sharding topologies, PHP development and a bit of MySQL-C-API development. Previously, Matthew was a DBA for the 5th largest MySQL installation at eBay/PayPal and also hails from managed hosting environments. During his off-hours, Matthew is a nationally ranked, competitive West Coast Swing dancer and travels to competitions around the US. He enjoys working out, camping, biking and playing MMOs with his son.