Microsoft on Monday revealed that hospitals and other IT shops should expect the next generation of its database to be available on June 1. Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a ...

At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted without having to change the applications that access it.

Microsoft's SQL Server database software offers two easy-to-use functions, one of which encrypts data using a passphrase, the other decrypting it with the same passphrase.

While CryptDB protects against a compromise of the database server application itself, with data at rest always being encrypted, it isn't designed to protect against an attack on applications used ...

Google Cloud, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are among large tech companies backing a new effort to help enterprises process encrypted server data in memory while shielding it from the rest of the ...

Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it’s stored, or, as it has become popular to say, “is at rest.” There are several methods to generate and apply ...