Hyperconscious of the cloud’s need to appear secure by design, Microsoft announced new encryption and data-protection features today for Azure SQL Database. Microsoft not only wants to encrypt data at ...

Transparent Data Encryption is easy but has its trade-offs SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted ...

Vulnerable Microsoft SQL servers are being targeted in a new wave of attacks with FARGO ransomware, security researchers are warning. MS-SQL servers are database management systems holding data for ...

I was looking a Red-Gate's SQL Backup program and was rather interested in the encryption options that the PRO version offered. It claims up to 256 bit encryption, but I was wondering how "secure" ...

Encrypting data is one of the most basic -- and most effective -- data security measures we have at our disposal. But when used with relational databases, encryption creates two major problems. The ...