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 ...

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 ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

I can't count how many times I've been in a meeting when someone tosses out the phrase, "Oh, we'll just encrypt the database." Yeah. Right. Good luck with that.Having covered database encryption for ...

A rule to live by with sensitive data is that at some point, your server will be compromised. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to protect your data, and more importantly your customer’s data, from ...

A long, long time ago—in the early 90s—I first worked as a DBA with responsibility for enterprise databases. I will never forget how surprised and disappointed I was to discover that the data in the ...

A team of Microsoft researchers led by Seny Kamara claims to have been successful at recovering a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that ...

NEW YORK, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading, modern, general purpose data platform, today announced the latest version of its core database, MongoDB 4.2. Key ...

When thinking about protecting data in the cloud, there are three areas of use that security and privacy professionals need to consider: data in motion, data at rest and data in use. In a nutshell, ...