Prior to SQL Server 2016, currently in CTP, your main method for encrypting a SQL Server application was to use a feature called Transparent Data Encryption. TDE provides strong encryption, but with ...

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext ...

He also listed the following new capabilities in SQL Server 2016: Additional security enhancements for Row-level Security and Dynamic Data Masking to round out security investments with Always ...

“With Always Encrypted, SQL Server can perform operations on encrypted data and best of all, the encryption key resides with the application in the customer’s trusted environment,” said ...

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 ...