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 ...

For the last three decades or so, the big problem in using encryption hasn’t been whether strongly encrypted files can be cracked. The problem remains that to actually do anything with encrypted ...

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 ...

Led by Seny Kamara, Microsoft experts have been able to successfully obtain a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that uses multiple layers of ...

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 ...