How to Encrypt Credit Card Information in an SQL Database. Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text ...

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 ...

Even if a firewall and database security have been employed, it's always a good practice to store sensitive information in an encrypted format. With SQL Server 2005, there are functions and ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server also supports automatically encrypting data before it’s stored to a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk (SSD), something it also calls “ transparent database ...

DbEncrypt for SQL Server 2.1, which will be unveiled this week, takes far fewer round trips between its encryption engine and a SQL Server database, resulting in a fivefold-to-tenfold performance ...

Microsoft today announced several security-oriented improvements for Azure SQL Database, a managed relational database available on the Azure public cloud.