Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here's how ...

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 ...

A major trade-off is that the TempDB is also encrypted even if only one database has TDE switched on. This has performance implications. Because the application does not have to change, this is ideal ...

More data than ever before is being put into cloud-based storage repositories. Leading cloud providers offer an array of storage options, yet databases remain the most common choice in today's ...

Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

File/operating system level-encryption is actually implemented outside the database engine -- but it's still a form of database encryption. And it's referred to as "transparent" encryption because it ...

With database breaches on the rise and auditors getting tougher about data protection practices, the pressure on organizations to encrypt sensitive databases has picked up steam considerably over the ...