Secure Zones | Teradata Vantage - Teradata Secure Zones Overview - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Administration

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-22
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageâ„¢

Teradata Secure Zones allows you to create one or more exclusive database hierarchies, called zones, within a single database system in Vantage. Access to the data in each zone and zone administration is handled separately from the rest of the database system in Vantage.

Teradata Secure Zones are useful in situations where the access to data must be tightly controlled and restricted. You can also use Teradata Secure Zones to support some regulatory compliance requirements for the separation of data access from database administration duties.

For example, consider the following use of Teradata Secure Zones. Suppose you have a multinational company or conglomerate enterprise with many subsidiaries. You can create a separate zone for each of the subsidiaries. If your company has divisions in different countries, you can create separate zones for each country to restrict data access to the personnel that are citizens of that country. Your corporate personnel can manage and access data across multiple zones while the subsidiary personnel in each zone have no access to data or objects in the other zones. A system-level zone administrator can manage the subsidiary zones and object administration can be done by either corporate DBAs or zone DBAs, as required.

With Teradata Secure Zones, you can ensure the following:

  • Users in one subsidiary have no access or visibility to objects in other subsidiaries.
  • Corporate-level users may have access to objects across any or all subsidiaries.

Another typical scenario is the case of cloud companies that host multiple data customers as tenants. Companies that offer cloud-based database services can host multiple tenants within a single Vantage system, using zones to isolate the tenants from each other as if they were running on physically segregated systems. Zone DBAs can administer database objects in their own zone as required. The tenant zones can be managed by a system-level zone administrator, where Teradata acts as the system administrator.

With Teradata Secure Zones, you can ensure the following:

  • Users in one tenant's zone have no access or visibility to objects within other zones.
  • Users in one tenant's zone cannot grant rights on any objects in the zone to any other users, databases, or roles of other zones within the system.