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Column Encryption

How do I deploy NetLib Column Encryption?

Encryptionizer for SQL Server  allows you to achieve column encryption is several ways. The simplest is through the use of our point-and-click user interface called the Column Encryption Manager (Col-E Manager, for short). Your first step is to create the server key. This allows you to choose a strong algorithm, key length (up to 256… Read More

How does Column Encryption work?

If using the Col-E Manager, when you select the column(s) to be encrypted, the Col-E manager will encrypt the column data on disk, and then create views that control access to the encrypted data. INSTEAD OF triggers are also created to ensure that data is written as encrypted back to the database. You will use… Read More

Is the encrypted data protected in backups?

Column data that is encrypted is backed-up as any other column data would be when SQL databases are backed-up. If you need to restore encrypted data to another machine, that machine must be configured with Encryptionizer with the same key profile settings.

How does Col-E protect against frequently repeating values?

When encrypting data in columns, if a column contains the same value repetitively, that same value will typically be encrypted to the same encrypted value. While someone may not be able to discern what that encrypted value is, they will be able to determine all the records that have that same value. For columns that… Read More

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