Know about the Stellar Always Encrypted Security Feature in SQL Server 2016

The upcoming version of SQL Server is already making great excitement among users for its few stellar Always Encrypted security feature. This smart new feature has been incorporated in SQL Server 2016 to provide an extra layer of security for the crucial and personal data of the user such as credit card number, data related to private healthcare or bank related information.  In other words, the main point of adding this feature in the upcoming SQL Server version is to keep the user data secure and out of reach from the hackers trying to steal your important data. The experts at Microsoft have long been working on the security and privacy features and finally they have come up with an innovative and useful as the Stellar Always Encrypted Security Feature in the latest SQL Server 2016. Reading this article, you will get to learn in depth about the new Stellar Always Encrypted Security Feature of SQL Server 2016.

With this new powerful feature, the data will be kept safe by encrypting even during transactions and other crucial computations and it will be read only by the clients who will get the keys to decrypt it. To make it more clearly, it will be like no database or system administrator will be able to access your personal or professional information saved in SQL Server due to this amazing Stellar Always Encrypted Security Feature.

This is going to be a user friendly feature to encourage the user to conduct more tasks at SQL Server without worrying for the safety of the data. The user will hold the key to unlock the data encrypted and will feel more comfortable and secure regarding the data stored in this database; no matter whether it will be saved in the cloud based server or an on premise server. The main aim of this feature is to separate the information or data for personal view and view by others who don’t actually own the data.

The main benefit expected out of this new smart feature of SQL Server 2016 is that it will help the small organizations as well as big ones to encrypt data while using Azure without any compromise of using the on premise data. No third parties will be able to steal your data without your permission; moreover, this feature will make encryption as transparent as possible for almost all the applications. You must also note that once an Always Encrypted Enabled Driver gets installed on your system then your data will be automatically encrypted and decrypted and before sending the data for encryption, the queries will be rewritten in order to preserve the semantics of the applications.

Another thing to note regarding stellar Always Encrypted security feature is that it will be available in two different types including; Deterministic and Randomized Encryption. The main use of the Deterministic Encryption will be encryption of columns and other grouping parameters; while the main use of the Randomized Encryption will be to encrypt crucial data that is not grouped in records or tables.

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