What is Nightingale?
Nightingale is a security technology that helps protect all types of sensitive data against both internal and external threats. Drawing on RSA Laboratories’ new secret-splitting technology, Nightingale is designed to be easily integrated into application software as a server module for the back-end of any network. It adds a powerful extra layer of defense to the applications you build. Any ordinary server today is a single point of compromise. An attacker compromising just that one server can seize all its privileges and the data it manages. Even strong encryption and secure (FIPS 140) hardware don’t solve this basic problem. (That’s because a hacker compromising a server gets the same access to keys or hardware as the server itself.) Nightingale strengthens security by doing away with single points of compromise in a network. With Nightingale, sensitive data is cryptographically distributed across two locations – the Nightingale module/server and an application server. This process is
