Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
New Security Features
SQL Server 2005 provided the capability to encrypt data at the column level. However, this encryption was not transparent to the end users or applications. Encrypting and decrypting the data required coding changes to use the built-in encryption and decryption functions. SQL Server 2008 introduces transparent data encryption (TDE), which allows for encrypting the entire database without affecting client applications. The purpose of TDE is to protect sensitive data in the event a database file or backup is stolen. Encryption is done in real-time at the page level as the data is written to disk and decrypted as the data is read from disk. The encryption is based on a database encryption key (DEK), which is a symmetric key ...
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