Siebel Security Guide > Communications and Data Encryption > About Data Encryption >

Encrypted Database Columns

Siebel Business Applications provide a number of database columns that are encrypted by default. Table 6 lists the database table columns encrypted by default in the Siebel database. For information on how to encrypt a database column, see Configuring Encryption and Search on Encrypted Data.

The CC_NUMBER and CC_NUM columns listed in Table 6 are used to store credit card number data. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is a set of standards designed to enhance the security of credit card data in organizations that process such data. It is contrary to the PCI standards to store credit card numbers in a database. The CC_NUMBER and CC_NUM columns are provided for backwards-compatibility purposes only and might be removed in a future release.