Filesystem security for TDE Keys and Certificates

What is TDE, and why is filesystem security important? Transparent Database Encryption, or TDE, is used to encrypt an entire database. The encryption is “transparent” since once the database is loaded by SQL Server, anyone…

Cannot use Certificate because its Private Key is not Present

Introduction Transparent Database Encryption, or TDE as it’s colloquially known, is a great solution for data security “at rest”. That is, data is encrypted on-disk, preventing someone with a copy of the database files from…

Data Masking is not enough to protect personal information from prying eyes!

Data Masking is the process of either obfuscating or replacing personally identifying information with meaningless data that cannot be used to identify the items being masked. The data masking process is frequently used to alter…