Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here's ...

This feature works using deterministic encryption, based on simple point lookup, searches, and equality joins on encrypted data housed within your SQL Server or Azure SQL database. Always Encrypted ...

The Always Encrypted feature attempts to address sensitive-data leakage through such attacks. Data in a particular column (such as credit card numbers) is encrypted courtesy of keys stored in ...