MongoDB queryable encryption means never having to decrypt sensitive data inside the data store, all but eliminating the database as a target of attack. Here’s how to get started. MongoDB 6 introduced ...

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 ...

In this post, we'll apply security technologies for stored data. It's helpful to remember that we can't depend upon underlying infrastructure to secure data in the cloud, so we are focused on applying ...

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 ...