Third-party Software Proxy Connectivity Test

Procedure

1. Click the Project Management menu item on the left to access the Project Management List page, as shown in Figure 1.
   Figure 1 Project list
   

2. Select the item you wish to encrypt from the right-side item list; hover the mouse over the item and click Enter, as shown in Figure 2.
   Figure 2 Starting the project
   

3. After clicking Enter in the previous step, the Project Homepage page will be displayed, as shown in Figure 3.
   Figure 3 Project homepage
   

4. Click the Pre Release menu on the left, then click Start in the Action column on the right to launch the Pre-Release Proxy Service, as shown in Figure 4.
   Figure 4 Starting the proxy service
   

5. Obtain the virtual IP address of the database encryption product from the Database Security Service (DBSS) management console; this IP address will replace the database's IP address, as shown in Figure 5. Traffic generated when an application connects to the database will pass through this proxy; the proxy will encrypt the fields in the application's data packets that require encryption before storing them in the database; the encrypted traffic returned by the database will then be decrypted and returned to the application.
   Figure 5 Retrieving the IP address of the proxy service
   

6. Connecting to a database using a third-party tool within the same VPC (as shown in Figure 6) – this represents the query results displayed by DBeaver on a Windows computer within the same VPC; the ability to query data confirms that the proxy service has been configured successfully.
   Figure 6 Connecting to database via third-party tools