Consider https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
This will provide disk level or partition level encryption. I would recommend partition level, and just have SQL installed to the appropriate partition (or, at the very least, the databases) Regards, *ASB* On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Eric Wittersheim <eric.wittersh...@gmail.com > wrote: > Thanks ASB, but we are not running Enterprise and I have been told that > the encryption that is offered in our version of SQL won't cover the > requirements. I totally agree with you about this, I can only do what I'm > asked. > > On Dec 1, 2017 12:00 PM, "Andrew S. Baker" <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why do you need it on a folder level, and not just use SQL TDE to encrypt >> the SQL database itself? >> >> I don't know that I would be comfortable relying on any database server >> that had to rely on a 3rd party encrypted folder where the database was >> residing. >> >> Regards, >> >> *ASB* >> *https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker <https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker>* >> >> *Providing CyberSecurity and IT Operations Consulting for the SMB >> market…* >> >> * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Eric Wittersheim < >> eric.wittersh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> I have a request that I hope some of you might be able to point me in >>> the right direction. I have a SQL 2008 r2 server running on Windows 2008 >>> R2 that I need to have a DB located in an encrypted folder. The server >>> does not have a TPM chip and we don't want to use a USB stick so Bitlocker >>> is not looking like an option. Because it is a SQL DB I don't think EFS >>> would be a good option either. Have any of you had any experience with any >>> 3rd party applications that can perform encryption on a folder level? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Eric >>> >> >>
