Microsoft SQL Server offers Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) functionality, which performs all encryption operations within the database itself. This results in a significant impact on database server resources

In most organizations, MS SQL Server will be just one of a number of areas where encryption is needed. Because SQL Server TDE only supports SQL Server encryption, this means separate products, training and workflows for multiple encryption implementations, increasing the cost and administrative effort associated with server encryption.

SQL Server TDE only offers minimal capabilities for managing encryption keys. Given that each instance of SQL Server requires a separate encryption key, having separate, disparately supported key managers results in a high degree of complexity, and exacerbates the risks of having keys lost or stolen.

Vormetric Transparent Encryption offers the capabilities you need to employ strong database encryption, with minimal effort and performance implications. With Vormetric Transparent Encryption, you can secure sensitive assets in your Microsoft SQL Server databases, and in all the other databases running across your enterprise.

For organizations that need to apply more granular encryption, including at the column or field level within databases, Thales eSecurity offers Vormetric Application Encryption. Vormetric Application Encryption simplifies the integration of encryption into existing corporate applications. The product features standards-based APIs, which are used to perform cryptographic and key management operations.

For enterprises that have chosen to use SQL Server TDE in their SQL Server environments, Thales offers secure and efficient cryptographic key management. Vormetric Key Management can centrally manage keys for SQL Server TDE, all Thales eSecurity products, Oracle TDE and other Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)-compliant encryption platforms. As a result, organizations can centrally and securely manage all their encryption keys, while streamlining key administration efforts.

While SQL Server TDE can protect data within the database, Vormetric's SQL Server database encryption solutions secure data both inside and outside of the database. We also provide database encryption for IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL and Sybase. Thales eSecurity solutions secure data on Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems, and they offer coverage of physical, virtual and cloud-based servers.

By offering a single console for managing encryption policies and cryptographic keys across a number of environments and technologies, Vormetric encryption solutions from Thales minimize administrative overhead. With this unified coverage, Thales helps security teams avoid database encryption silos, reduce costs and apply security policies more broadly and consistently.

Compared to SQL Server TDE, Vormetric encryption offers far superior performance. With Vormetric's Oracle encryption solution, encryption and decryption is performed at the optimal location: in the file system or volume manager. Further, the Vormetric SQL encryption solution can take advantage of microprocessor encryption technology, such as Intel AES-NI, to further minimize the performance overhead of encryption.