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Column-level (or “cell-level”) encryption was introduced with SQL Server 2005. We can encrypt individual columns that are sensitive in nature. The trade-off here is that we need to change our database ...

Do you feel confident about the security of your database environment? Because databases may contain sensitive or regulated information, critical applications or stored functions, ensuring 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, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

Prying eyes can cost companies big time, especially when medical records are exposed. These techniques for obscuring database records can help Many companies that were doing business in a relatively ...

A team of Microsoft researchers led by Seny Kamara claims to have been successful at recovering a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that ...