Introduction to LDT over CIFS

Live Data Transformation is now extended to network share deployments through a distributed architecture system, which allows users to encrypt data on CIFS/NFS shares without any application downtime. CTE agents can support encryption of data workloads for both direct-attached storage and network shares with zero encryption downtime and automated key rotation capabilities. This allows you to meet compliance requirements, without disrupting business applications.

The administration of LDT protected GuardPoints over NFS/CIFS shares is similar to the administration of GuardPoints in local file systems. The requirements related to policies, versioned keys, security and key rules, QoS, and file level rekey operations, for GuardPoints over local file systems, also apply to GuardPoints over NFS/CIFS shares.

The distributed aspect of LDT over NFS/CIFS shares extends the LDT administration across multiple hosts sharing access to the same GuardPoints. This section describes the extended administration of LDT across multiple hosts and how you can use LDT for data transformation across those multiple hosts.