Learn how to encrypt data in a database using different methods and tools, and what best practices to follow for data security and performance.

Always Encrypted: Protect sensitive data and store encryption keys in the Windows certificate store This article shows you how to secure sensitive data in a SQL database with database encryption by ...

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 ...

To simplify the adoption of Always Encrypted, SQL Server Management Studio now includes the new Column Encryption Wizard. With just a few clicks this wizard will: Create the necessary encryption keys ...

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 ...

Always Encrypted is a new data encryption technology in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server that helps protect sensitive data at rest on the server, during movement between client and server, and while ...