WS SQLEKM User Guide

This guide applies to nShield Web Services SQLEKM, which provides data-at-rest encryption for sensitive information held by Microsoft SQL Server.

The product works in combination with the nShield Web Services Option Pack, and nShield Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), to provide a high quality SQL Extensible Key Management (SQLEKM) provider. It is designed to be integrated into a Microsoft SQL Server database infrastructure with minimal disruption.

The nShield Web Services SQLEKM provider supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Cell-Level Encryption (CLE), and the concurrent use of both TDE and CLE.