SQL Server 2016 will bring new functions for protecting data in motion and at rest, visual reporting, cloud-first features and big data analytics tools.

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.

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.

Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it's stored, or as it has become popular to say, "is at rest." ...

Google, Intel and Microsoft back the Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Consortium, a new effort to process encrypted server data in memory.

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 ...