Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the easiest ways of encrypting your data at rest. In the previous chapter we looked at what TDE is and how it works.
In this chapter we go through the steps of setting TDE up. You can set up TDE when you first create a database, or you can apply it to an existing database. In the latter case, once TDE has been enabled, it will encrypt your existing data in the background. In either case the steps are the same.
Creating the Keys and Certificate
The first step in setting up TDE is ...
