Spreading the Security Wealth

When I first started at Microsoft, I worked a couple of projects with the SQL Server Security team - and I really enjoyed that group. They are a very smart, fun group of folks to hang around with. Plus, they are really good at math!

Anyway, they wrote some whitepapers recently that are a great set of links to have:

• Engine Separation of Duties for the Application Developer - discusses how to build applications that support role separation.
• Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition - in depth treatise on Transparent Database Encryption.
• Cryptography in SQL Server - Survery of all the cryptography features in SQL Server 2008.