USE CASE: AIR GAPPED ENVIRONMENTS
Deploy enterprise-grade Postgres®, protect sensitive data, and support real-time local data processing in an isolated environment.
THE CHALLENGE
Air gapping for security
Data security is a top priority for organizations, leading some to consider air gapping, a strategy to isolate databases from other networks and reduce the risk of cyberattacks. While air gapped environments can eliminate security threats, they also introduce challenges such as increased operational overhead, lost IT agility due to manual updates and maintenance, and high training costs as most developers lack experience with the lack of connectivity. These complexities can hinder innovation and slow development.
OUR SOLUTION
Efficient, local data processing
EDB Postgres AI offers a sovereign data and AI platform that enables database-as-a-service (DBaaS) automation on-premises, with zero cloud connectivity. It supports remote installations and simplified management of backups, upgrades, and disaster recovery, all with built-in high availability.
Secure deployments
Enable EDB Postgres AI in isolated, sovereign environments—on-premises and in your private data centers. With EDB’s hardened Postgres, enterprise-grade security, Trust Center, and software bill of materials (SBOM), you unlock additional layers of security and compliance.
On-premises DBaaS
Enable end-to-end database automation and eliminate database administrative tasks with automated provisioning, backups, user management, point-in-time recovery, activity logs, and more, ensuring high-quality execution at scale.
Single pane of glass
With visibility into 200+ metrics, monitor hundreds of databases in real time through a single, unified control plane. Ensure performance and up to 99.999% availability across your secured databases.
Enable strong data governance and maximum security over sensitive data without compromising operational efficiency.
Protect sensitive data
Strengthen integrity of sensitive data by minimizing the risk of unauthorized access and tampering. Leverage hardened PostgreSQL to build with open source confidently.
Reduce operational overhead
Deploy and manage hundreds of EDB Postgres database clusters, tools, and extensions from a single interface. Save time as you simplify database management with automated backups, upgrades, and disaster recovery.
Respond to insights in real time
Monitor, observe, and respond to performance and security issues in real time across air gapped environments. Query diagnostics help identify problems and bottlenecks up to 5x faster as you accelerate app performance up to 8x.
EDB Postgres AI enables air gapped environments
EDB Postgres AI automates manual processes required to manage air gapped environments such as backups, point-in-time recovery, provisioning, activity logs, user management, and alerts and notifications. With intelligent observability, you can ensure high availability and performance while protecting sensitive data in your isolated environment.
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Resources
Managing Clusters in a Disconnected or Air Gapped Environment
Navigating Today’s Database Management Dilemmas
Air gapped environments are those where the secure network or system is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public internet.
An air gap is used to secure highly sensitive data or as a backup and recovery strategy to protect a network from unauthorized access and malware. Air gaps can provide an extra layer of security against many forms of data loss such as a weather disaster, software glitch, hardware failure, or ransomware attack.
Air gaps are traditionally associated with on-premises deployments. However, you can create a “logical” air gap in the cloud. While there won’t be a physical gap between the system and a public network, there can be a logical gap through network isolation, access controls, and regular audits and updates.
Some key benefits of air gapping are:
- Security and compliance: Maintain tight control of data and reduce compliance risks.
- Data integrity: Strengthen integrity of sensitive data by minimizing the risk of unauthorized access and tampering.
- Defense against threats: Be ready for external threats such as weather disasters or cyberattacks.
Some key challenges of implementing air gaps are:
- Operational complexity: Maintenance, management, and monitoring are time-, knowledge-, and labor-intensive.
- Resource requirements: Resources such as specialized hardware, personnel to manage the system, and training for employees are often required to achieve air gaps.
- Developer usability: Developers often lack experience with air gapped systems. Although the lack of connectivity enhances security, it also introduces challenges to access popular cloud or open source services, online resources, etc. that would otherwise benefit users.
- Agility: With significant effort and time required for manual updates and maintenance, teams are occupied and kept from developing business-critical applications.
EDB solves these challenges by automating the manual processes required to update and maintain air gapped environments such as backups, point-in-time recovery, provisioning, activity logs, user management, and alerts and notifications. Because you can operate EDB Postgres AI through a single, unified UI, your developers don’t have to learn multiple tools.
Air gaps are particularly useful for government and defense, finance, and healthcare organizations. Government organizations are critical to national security and often must be physically inaccessible from other networks. Learn more about EDB's commitment to achieving FedRAMP authorization. Finance and healthcare institutions deal with sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII) that is highly regulated.