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SecurityYou can secure your HCL OneDB™ database server and the data that is stored in your HCL OneDB™ databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL OneDB™The HCL OneDB™ Security Guide documents methods for keeping your data secure by preventing unauthorized viewing and altering of data or database objects, including how to use the secure-auditing facility of the database server.
Securing data
Storage space encryptionYou can encrypt storage spaces (dbspaces, blobspaces and smart blobspaces) with Informix Dynamic Server. The data in encrypted storage spaces is unintelligible without the encryption key. Encrypting storage spaces is an effective way to protect sensitive information that is stored on disk.
Monitoring the encryption of storage spacesYou can monitor whether storage space encryption is enabled and which storage spaces are encrypted.

Monitoring the encryption of storage spaces

You can monitor whether storage space encryption is enabled and which storage spaces are encrypted.

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To determine whether storage space encryption is enabled, run the oncheck -pr command. If storage space encryption is enabled, the output includes the following line, which identifies the encryption cipher:

Encryption-at-rest is enabled using cipher 'cipher'

If the root dbspace is encrypted, the output of the oncheck -pr command contains the following line:

The ROOT Dbspace is encrypted

To see which storage spaces are encrypted, use one of the following methods:

Run the onstat -d command. Position 6 of the flags field contains an E if the storage space is encrypted.
Query the sysdbspaces table in the sysmaster database. The is_encrypted column shows whether a storage space is encrypted.