Encrypting backups is crucial to prevent data theft from stolen backup files. SQL Server offers backup encryption starting with SQL Server 2014. You can use a variety of algorithms, including AES ...

This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space.

For our use case, we take a scenario in which our production Amazon RDS for SQL Server instance is configured in high availability mode using multiple Availability Zones, and AWS Key Management ...

Azure SQL now offers support for cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) with transparent data encryption (TDE). Cross-tenant CMK expands on the Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) scenario for utilizing TDE ...