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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent security report by Microsoft finds that, even when cloaked in encryption technology, "an alarming amount of sensitive information can be recovered" from electronic medical record databases.

This growth in illicit activity has pushed encryption to the center of debates about national security, law enforcement and ...

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 ...

In today’s fast-changing world of business regulations and data security, many leaders face privacy and protection challenges they aren’t fully prepared to handle. Most understand the basics of ...

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 ...