Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

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 ...

A recent security report by Microsoft finds that, even when cloaked in encryption technology, "an alarming amount of sensitive information can be recovered" from electronic medical record databases.

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Recently, my good friend and co-worker Aaron Bertrand and I were producing a video for the upcoming PASS Summit 2015 event. (Learn more about the international SQL ...

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, ...

Baffle Advanced Encryption was designed to overcome the barriers to adopting encryption for analytics. Here’s how it enables compliant, privacy-enhanced computation. For years, data teams worked with ...

Led by Seny Kamara, Microsoft experts have been able to successfully obtain a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that uses multiple layers of ...