Trolled the NNTP groups with no luck on this one…
What options are there for securing/encrypting the data within a SharePoint database? I’d expect you wouldn’t want to encrypt the actual information that’s stored as the SharePoint Gatherer won’t be able to index the content as it won’t decrypt on the fly.
Would you instead look into securing/encrypting the actual data files the SharePoint tables are stored in? In other words, this isn’t a SharePoint issue but rather a SQL Server issue.
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