In December 2019, popular document database MongoDB added a fairly radical new feature to the platform: field-level database encryption. At first glance, one might wonder whether this is a meaningful ...

One of the most common concerns security engineers hear sounds like “field level encryption is awesome, but alas we can not afford it because we will need to completely rewrite the code and encryption ...

When I was a young man—a long, long time ago now—I worked as an Oracle DBA (Oracle version 6, if you must know). I remember my astonishment at finding out that information in the database was stored ...

MongoDB has released a new version today featuring field-level encryption (FLE), a new mechanism that protects sensitive information stored in a database even if attackers compromise the database ...

With the combination of fast-evolving AI capabilities and the unprecedented compute performance that quantum computing is set to deliver by the end of the decade, a new approach to data security that ...

The battle for government access to encrypted messaging data raises key enterprise IT strategy issues. Apple has been battling to maintain encryption for a decade. Two federal agencies now see it as a ...