Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here's how ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...

In our case, Sharepoint 2007 with SQL Server 2008 R2. The results are pretty consistent. Turn it on and wait, eventually every web on the site will start locking up and web requests will time out.

Microsoft has released .Net Framework 4.6.2, tightening security in multiple areas, including the BCL (Base Class Library). The new version also makes improvements to the SQL client, Windows ...

If your business uses Microsoft's Access database software to manage sensitive data, you'll want to encrypt your database and its tables to prevent them being viewed or manipulated by unauthorized ...