I can't count how many times I've been in a meeting when someone tosses out the phrase, "Oh, we'll just encrypt the database." Yeah. Right. Good luck with that.Having covered database encryption for ...

The global market for Database Encryption was estimated at US$3.6 Billion in 2023 and is projected to reach US$21.9 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 29.5% from 2023 to 2030. Database encryption ...

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 ...

I recently spoke with the MongoDB team about the much-anticipated MongoDB version 7. One feature they were particularly interested in discussing was Queryable Encryption. Let's delve into this feature ...

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 ...

Facing a blend of old and new regulations, fintech companies, neobanks, and banks-as-a-service use application-level encryption (ALE) to encrypt transaction data, PII, and data sensitive with payments ...

HIPAA's New Data Security Expectations Require More Than Encryption andrew.gertz@t… Tue, 06/16/2026 - 14:17 Encryption Key Management Healthcare Regulation and compliance Randy Hildebrandt | Product ...

nCipher (News - Alert) recently announced the integration of its nShield and netHSM key management solutions with Transparent Data Encryption, part of the Oracle Database 11g Advanced Security option.

A long, long time ago—in the early 90s—I first worked as a DBA with responsibility for enterprise databases. I will never forget how surprised and disappointed I was to discover that the data in the ...

Privacy-protecting databases use a number of techniques to guard data. The complexity of these techniques has evolved as threats to data privacy have risen ...

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by ...