Pieter Vanhove

Over the past year, Microsoft has significantly strengthened the security of Azure SQL and SQL Server to meet an evolving threat landscape and the rise of AI. This session walks through what’s new in across authentication and authorization, data protection, network security, monitoring, and threat detection.

As AI becomes embedded in every application, protecting sensitive data in Azure SQL is vital. This session explores how to secure sensitive data from AI agents and design a defense-in-depth model using Azure SQL's existing security stack - modern authentication, granular access control, data protection, monitoring, auditing, and more. Learn how to confidently use Azure SQL to power AI applications.

Over the past year, Microsoft has significantly strengthened the security of Azure SQL and SQL Server to meet an evolving threat landscape and the rise of AI. This session walks through what’s new in across authentication and authorization, data protection, network security, monitoring, and threat detection.

As AI becomes embedded in every application, protecting sensitive data in Azure SQL is vital. This session explores how to secure sensitive data from AI agents and design a defense-in-depth model using Azure SQL's existing security stack - modern authentication, granular access control, data...

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the cutting-edge security features introduced in SQL Server 2025. This session is designed for anyone interested in enhancing their security posture and ensuring robust data protection in their SQL Server environments.

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the cutting-edge security features introduced in SQL Server 2025. This session is designed for anyone interested in enhancing their security posture and ensuring robust data protection in their SQL Server environments. SQL Server 2025 brings a host of advanced security enhancements designed to safeguard your data and streamline security management. In this session, we will cover new features related to SFI & Entra Authentication, Data Protection & Crypto Updates, and other security enhancements. To bring these features to life, we will present live demonstrations on these new features. By the end of this session, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the new security features in SQL Server 2025 and how to leverage them to protect your data and optimize your database operations.

Microsoft Fabric provides a unified data platform that dramatically simplifies life for our customers. The ‘on-by-default’ and simple ‘click-to-enable’ security controls make securing your SQL database in Microsoft Fabric easier than ever. Specifically: 1. Centralized Identity Management using...

Imagine a database system that can perform computations on sensitive data without ever having access to the data in plaintext. With such confidential computing capabilities, you could protect your sensitive data from powerful high-privileged but unauthorized users, including cloud operators and DBAs, while preserving…

Imagine a database system that can perform computations on sensitive data without ever having access to the data in plaintext. With such confidential computing capabilities, you could protect your sensitive data from powerful high-privileged but unauthorized users, including cloud operators and DBAs, while preserving database system’s processing power.

Transparent data encryption (TDE), Always Encrypted and ledger are integral components of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database's security arsenal, providing robust data protection, confidentiality, and integrity. Combining encryption and ledger capabilities significantly enhances data security by ensuring the protection…

Establishing trust around the integrity of data stored in database systems has been a longstanding problem for all organizations that manage financial, medical, or other sensitive data. SQL Ledger is a new feature in Azure SQL and SQL Server that incorporates blockchain crypto technologies into the RDBMS to ensure the data stored in a database is tamper evident.

Establishing trust around the integrity of data stored in database systems has been a longstanding problem for all organizations that manage financial, medical, or other sensitive data. Ledger is a new feature in Azure SQL and SQL Server that incorporates blockchain crypto technologies into the RDBMS to ensure the data stored in a database is tamper evident.

Join the Azure Database Platform Security team to learn about major feature enhancements coming in the Data Protection space, such as, Database-level CMK, authorize access using Policies in Purview, different managed identity options and the latest on Ledger and Network controls.

You will be challenged with a case study to design a solution using Azure SQL Database capabilities. At the end of this session, you will better understand the possibilities to migrate on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database. You will learn how to synchronize data across different...

You will be challenged with a case study to design a solution using Azure SQL Database capabilities. At the end of this session, you will better understand the possibilities to migrate on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database. You will learn how to synchronize data across different environments and get more insights on how to troubleshoot issues in Azure SQL Database. This is a hands-on, open discussions and team work kind of session (not a traditional slideshow). Attendees should already have basic knowledge of Azure SQL Database.

When Microsoft Azure SQL Database was introduced, it had only a small subset of the features available in the SQL Server database engine. With the introduction of version V12 a few years ago, Azure SQL Database is now an enterprise-class platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. Of course, Microsoft continued to add new features and functionalities into Azure SQL Database. Join our pre-con to learn more about some cool new features that are available now in Azure SQL Database. The main topics we will discuss are: Administration o Hyperscale o Elastic Database Jobs o Backup Retention Periods Business Continuity o Geo-replication & Failover Groups o Virtual Network service endpoints o How to connect to Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Security o TDE with Bring Your Own Key o Data Discovery and Classification o SQL Vulnerability Assessment Monitoring and performance tuning o Automatic Tuning o Intelligent Insights Managed Instance Migration o Data Migration Service o Azure Data Sync Important! We are not going to start from scratch, so prior knowledge on Azure SQL Database is required. Bring your laptop and your Azure subscription because we’re planning some exercises.