Always Encrypted is a feature introduced in SQL Server 2016 that protects sensitive data by encrypting it at the client side, ensuring it remains encrypted both at rest (on disk) and in transit (over ...

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Recently, my good friend and co-worker Aaron Bertrand and I were producing a video for the upcoming PASS Summit 2015 event. (Learn more about the international SQL ...

In a time where data breaches and privacy regulations are front and center, implementing encryption at the database level is no longer optional it’s essential. Recently, I took on the challenge of ...

Column-level (or “cell-level”) encryption was introduced with SQL Server 2005. We can encrypt individual columns that are sensitive in nature. The trade-off here is that we need to change our database ...

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext only to ...

Commentary - Data encryption has become a necessary component to most enterprise data security strategies. Enterprises can no longer rely on basic authentication and access control tools to protect ...

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