Data encryption in SQL Server 2005 can be done either by using password mechanism or by making use of keys and certificates. In this article, we will look at both mechanisms for data encryption for ...

It is a type of information sanitization whose intent is privacy protection. It is the process of either encrypting or removing personally identifiable information from data sets, so that the people ...

Control access. Encrypt data. Monitor activities. Help secure your data at rest or in motion using layers of protection built into SQL Server—the database with the least vulnerabilities of any major ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Data security is one of the top priorities for a database administrator. Hackers are always on their toes to grab any bit of customers' personal details, be it his account number ...

With Always Encrypted, the data is encrypted and decrypted on the client-side, and is not exposed in plaintext in memory of the SQL Server process. As a result, even DBAs and administrators of ...

SQL Server provides functions to encrypt and decrypt data using a certificate, asymmetric key, or symmetric key. It manages all of these in an internal certificate store. The store uses an encryption ...

The next version of SQL Server will include an additional layer of security that keeps valuable personal data such as Social Security numbers, private healthcare data or credit card information ...

To encrypt and decrypt a string we have a predefined functions in sql server 2008 that are easy to use. suppose we want to save some data that doesn't need to be exposed as a plain text then in such ...