Microsoft has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...

Storing the data encryption keys in Porticor's key management service, Porticor's MS SQL Server plugin is a small installable package that can be added to a running SQL Server database with ...

Learn how to provision keys for Always Encrypted using the SqlServer PowerShell module to provide control access to the encryption keys and the database. This article provides the steps to provision ...

1/ In SQL server 2008, there is a new whole database encryption option (TDE). I suspect that using this option will make the backups incompatible with SQL 2005.

Third-party column-level database encryption solutions can protect columns across heterogeneous database environments that may include databases platforms like DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle ...

Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a focus on analytics, cloud capabilities, data encryption and security, as well as the usual raft of features database vendors typically market ...

Opinion: To fend off criminal manhandling of valuable data, database encryption should be one tool in an enterprise's arsenal.