Database Encryption Solutions
Executive Summary: Database encryption can protect data on Microsoft SQL Server and other database platforms from internal and external attacks. Although SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 have built-in encryption features, best practice for implementing security solutions involves a layered approach that also incorporates third-party products. Database encryption products generally encrypt at the column level or the file level. Split-key ability, key storage, and ciphers used can be important factors in choosing the right solution for your environment.
Given recent well-publicized data leaks and beefed-up security regulations that require companies to publicly disclose when unencrypted data has been exposed, all companies not using database encryption should be asking themselves why not. At the simplest level, database encryption addresses the concern that an attacker might get through your network’s other defenses or that the attacker might be someone from inside the organization. Encrypting data helps keep your company’s name from appearing in the headlines next to disturbing phrases such as “security breach.” Read more »
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