Azure SQL’s new functionality comes in roughly three categories: encryption, data masking, and access security. Transparent Data ... against only so much: if a server is physically accessed ...

One such approach is TDE, or Transparent ... data with a low performance penalty per transaction. It protects enterprise data by facilitating real-time I/O encryption and decryption of SQL Server ...

The new Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature will be shipped ... as these keys are never stored inside the third-party cloud server. The TDE capability will be available via EnterpriseDB ...