The Elephant Has No Clothes

Location Athens, Greece
Dates Oct 22, 2024 – Oct 25, 2024
Presentation Oct 25, 2024
Speaker
Jan Wieremjewicz
Jan Wieremjewicz

Senior Product Manager, Percona

Abstract

PostgreSQL is the most popular open-source database among developers. It is one of the Top 5 databases in the world, and it is fully open source and community driven. But, PostgreSQL, the “Emperor” of databases, has no clothes! For all intents and purposes Slonik is “walking around naked” because there is no open source TDE solution to keep the elephant clothed. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is the way that data at rest protection can be done on the database level, ensuring the data is encrypted on the disk as well as in your backups and no application changes are required. While TDE is not available in PostgreSQL we created an extension that addresses (clothes the elephant) this issue and strengthens the security of your database. Join us as we tell the story of The Elephant Has No Clothes and how Percona is working to solve this issue by creating an open source TDE extension. We will go over data and findings that span the development of the extension, the added security benefits to your database, and point to what the future holds for TDE.

Video

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Speaker Bios

Jan Wieremjewicz

Senior Product Manager, Percona

Jan is a Senior Product Manager at Percona, leading the products for PostgreSQL. He has vast experience in the development, deployment and maintenance of enterprise systems.

Professionally, he is passionate about simple solutions that solve complicated problems and user experience that maximizes the product potential.

Privately he is a foodie by day, a tech geek into graphic novels, video and board games by night and parent/spouse in between.

Having spent already almost three years in Percona, most of us learned that he has enough energy and topics to fill in any space and time.

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