Enterprise data security is paramount when migrating data to the cloud. Previously, with on-prem environments, controls were contained within a finite and well-defined border, making it simpler to ...

This growth in illicit activity has pushed encryption to the center of debates about national security, law enforcement and ...

Increasing concerns over security breaches from external and internal threats, regulatory compliance requirements from HIPAA, the HITECH Act, PCI DSS, and other mandates, plus the migration from ...

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 ...

Encryption, for security purposes, is also known as a cipher. It is a mathematical algorithm that hides information or makes it secret. Data that is not encrypted is called plain text, while encrypted ...

But what about data in motion? That’s where column-level encryption pays off to provide end-to-end encryption. With TDE, each data page is encrypted when written to disk and is decrypted when read ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are a CEO concerned about protecting sensitive data, you should know that governments around the world are warning that big changes are coming: Quantum computers are soon going to be powerful ...