Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

Researchers have developed a revocable, time-based attribute-based encryption scheme for cloud-assisted IoT that cuts ...

We take a comprehensive look at Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for PostgreSQL, specifically focusing on the pg_tde extension developed by Percona. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a security ...

Transparent Data Encryption is easy but has its trade-offs SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted ...

When I was a young man—a long, long time ago now—I worked as an Oracle DBA (Oracle version 6, if you must know). I remember my astonishment at finding out that information in the database was stored ...

VMware vSAN 6.6 is the first software-defined storage offering of its kind to include native hyper-converged infrastructure encryption within the hypervisor. VSAN 6.6 builds data-at-rest encryption ...

BitLocker, an encryption program from Microsoft, offers data protection for the whole disk in an efficient method that is easy to implement, seamless to the user, and can be managed by systems admins.

McAfee Inc. said this week that it is releasing a new version of its E-Business Server data encryption software that it claims will make it easier for companies to encrypt data sent outside their ...

In December 2019, popular document database MongoDB added a fairly radical new feature to the platform: field-level database encryption. At first glance, one might wonder whether this is a meaningful ...

When talking about security, the first thing we inevitably think about is 'how to prevent theft.' Strengthening passwords, ...