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title: Encrypting sensitive data
description: This section covers how to configure the PingDirectory server to protect sensitive information in the server.
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revdate: September 13, 2023
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# Encrypting sensitive data

This section covers how to configure the PingDirectory server to protect sensitive information in the server.

Some of the ways to protect sensitive data covered in this section are enabling on-disk encryption for data in backends, the changelog, and the replication databases. You can protect sensitive attributes by limiting the ways that clients can interact with them.

For more information, see the following topics:

* [About encrypting and protecting sensitive data](pd_ds_encrypt_protect_sensitive_data.html)

* [About backing up and restoring the encryption settings definitions](pd_ds_backup_restore_encryption_settings_defs.html)

* [Configuring sensitive attributes](pd_ds_config_sensitive_attriutes.html)

* [Configuring global sensitive attributes](pd_ds_config_global_sensitive_attribute.html)

* [Excluding a global sensitive attribute on a client connection policy](pd_ds_exclude_global_sensitive_attribute.html)