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 ...

Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

A comprehensive database optimization framework integrating connection pooling, distributed caching, and multi-layer encryption achieves ...

A senior Microsoft executive has told a European parliamentary committee that the company does not encrypt its server-to-server data communications. Dorothee Belz, EMEA VP for Legal and Corporate ...