Security

A tour of Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB

Santosh Kulkarni July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

Always encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB provides encryption support on the client-side to protect sensitive data by encrypting data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers, before it gets transferred over the wire to be stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Always encrypted allows clients to protect JSON property values which are ...

Announced at Build: new capabilities for data security and workload optimization

Aria Jelinek May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Read on for Azure Cosmos DB updates at Microsoft Build 2021, including enhanced control, security, cost savings and speed.

Announced at Ignite: new Cassandra and MongoDB capabilities, real-time analytics, enhanced security, and more

Nikisha Reyes-Grange March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

New features and capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB were announced today at Microsoft Ignite. Read on for highlights and the schedule of events.

Continuous backup with point in time restore now in preview

Govind Kanshi March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Azure Cosmos DB now offers continuous backup with point-in-time restore capabilities. This feature can help to recover your database from accidental delete of accounts, containers or mutation of data. The restore can be accomplished through a wide area of tools available on the platform.

Role-based access control with Azure AD now in preview

Thomas Weiss March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Role-based access controls are now in public preview for Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API. They offer fine-grained control over permissions and add a new layer of security to your databases.

TLS 1.2 enforcement on Azure Cosmos DB

Thomas Weiss June 17, 2020 Jun 17, 2020 06/17/20

Azure Cosmos DB will start enforcing Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 starting July 29th, 2020.

Azure Cosmos DB wrap-up: May 2020 BUILD Announcements

Mark Brown May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20

Read about all of the amazing announcements we made at Microsoft BUILD 2020 including Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB, autoscale GA, encryption, new Jupyter Notebook features, serverless, new change feed and much more!

Enhanced encryption at rest with customer-managed keys

Thomas Weiss May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Azure Cosmos DB enhances its enterprise-grade security offering. Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys is now generally available, adding a second layer of encryption on top of the default service-managed keys.

Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available

Thomas Weiss March 14, 2020 Mar 14, 2020 03/14/20

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB, making Azure Cosmos DB the next Azure service compatible with Azure Private Link. What is Azure Private Link Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) services. It simplifies the ...

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