As a security measure, we are looking at the possibility of encrypting the SuiteCRM (7.2.10 community) database (MySQL). Does suiteCRM support encrypted databases?
No. You can use an encrypted file system.
Are there any benefits do you expect to obtain from the encrypted database, that you wouldn’t get from an encrypted filesystem?
Both MySQL and MariaDB support data at rest encryption and data in transit encryption.
You are likely to have more success implementing this at a database level than in the application itself.
Setup can be quite complex when compared to a basic deployment.
Using encryption has a performance overhead of roughly 5% so from a usability perspective it’s best to apply only to the data that requires encryption to maintain compliance.
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