SQL Server Security : January 2009

Data Protection Day, January 28th: Thought some readers of this blog might be interested in Data Protection Day , tomorrow, January 28. The Council of Europe established this day to raise awareness of data privacy and data protection issues and how we, as technology professionals, can Read More...
Posted 27 January 09 08:08 by jackr | 1 Comments
About DEK rotation and log backup in Transparent Database Encryption (TDE): Regarding the DEK rotation in TDE, after a DEK has been rotated twice, a log backup must be performed before the DEK can be modified again, otherwise in the third time of rotation the following error message will be popped up: “ This command requires Read More...
Posted 26 January 09 07:44 by liyingj | 0 Comments
First HSM for SQL Server 2008 released!: Today, January 15th 2009, Safenet announced its release of Luna SA HSM support for SQL Server 2008 and became the first EKM provider available in the market! SQL Server 2008 introduced Extensible Key Management (EKM) for managing keys outside of SQL Server. Read More...
Posted 16 January 09 12:57 by Zubair A. Mughal | 3 Comments

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