SQL Database Data Encryption

August 10, 2020 Acumatica Comments (0)
Encrypting data at rest ensures privacy and security if an intruder gains access to your database. Unauthorized access includes physical access to your storage hardware or an unauthorized login to your database server.
Microsoft SQ DB allows encryption at the database level, however as one might expect, there will be performance and data storage impact.
A blog has revealed the following statistics for encryption:
·       SQL Insert: 69% more
·       SQL Read: 10% more
·       Storage: 230% more
It is a heavy price to pay for encryption at the SQL DB level, therefore for this reason Acumatica has provided a mechanism that allows you to selectively encrypt data fields – thereby having a trade-off of selective Field-Level data encryption and performance degradation.
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