Checking Digital Signatures

Easy and Cost Effective way to Encrypt Every SQL Server Database

Learn why Becton Dickinson has selected DBDefence to protect their SQL Server data across numerous medical devices in a cost effective manner.

Regenerating the Master Key

Current Symmetric Key Algorithms

Finding Keys

Recover Deleted TDE Key for Azure SQL Database

In this article we look at the steps to recover a deleted TDE key that is being used by Azure SQL Database for database encryption.

Completely Encrypted Data

Do we care or worry if our databases need to handle encrypted data? Steve has a few thoughts about why we may or may not be concerned.

Confidential VMs

Google is introducing encrypted virtual machines.

TDE BYOK and Geo-Replication in Azure SQL DB

Recently a customer asked me for help with setting up a test of an Azure SQL Database in the single database tier with Geo-Replication to work with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with a customer-managed key, also known as Bring Your Own Key (BYOK). It is very simple to do it when you use service-managed keys, […]

Configure Extensible Key Management Using Azure Key Vault - Level 3 of the Stairway to TDE

In this third level of the Stairway, we examine how to store your encryption certificate in the Azure Key Vault.