Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here's ...

Where needed, the enclave can decrypt the data and then perform its computations and data processing on the plaintext. But neither the data nor the column encryption keys are exposed in plaintext ...

DbEncrypt allows you to apply column-level encryption in your SQL Server database and assign view permissions to different users. Whether for obscuring credit card numbers, social security numbers ...