Security
The first important feature we will discuss of cross feature support is the ability to use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on memory-optimized objects. TDE, as the name suggests, allows a database administrator to apply an encryption mechanism to an entire database. This encryption will protect all the data stored inside the database. The encryption is designed in such a way that should the database fall into the wrong hands (or the data and log files are copied or a backup is misplaced), then the data inside those files will be completely encrypted. Any encryption key(s) and certificate(s) will be stored separately from the database files themselves. The scope of this book does not allow for a full excursion into the inner-workings ...
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