BANGALORE, INDIA: Data security is one of the top priorities for a database administrator. Hackers are always on their toes to grab any bit of customers' personal details, be it his account number or ...

Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

File/operating system level-encryption is actually implemented outside the database engine -- but it's still a form of database encryption. And it's referred to as "transparent" encryption because it ...

When the team from Protegrity, Inc. called the ZDNet offices last week to tell us about its database content encryption software, Secure.Data, my initial reaction was, "Who needs it?" After all, your ...

"Vormetric Data Security offered us an easier yet effective method to encrypt our SQL Server databases and comply with PCI DSS encryption and key management requirements," said Troy Larson, MetaBank's ...

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Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority that issues SSL certificates, which are indispensable for secure Internet communication, free of charge. More than 230 million websites use Let's Encrypt, and ...

More and more organizations are moving SharePoint and SQL workloads into Microsoft Azure in the cloud because of the simplicity of spinning up servers in the cloud, adding more capacity, decreasing ...

COMMENTARY--When the team from Protegrity, Inc. called the ZDNet offices last week to tell us about its database content encryption software, Secure.Data, my initial reaction was, "Who needs it?" ...