22-25 April 2026 
SQL Server 2016-Security Obscurity and Encryption
2016TL; DR
Security is one of the top topics for the new release of SQL Server. A total of 3 completely new features are coming to us: Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking and Row Level Security.
Session Details
Security is one of the top topics for the new release of SQL Server. A total of 3 completely new features are coming to us: Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking and Row Level Security. Microsoft Certified Solutions Master Andreas Wolter will give a close insight into the new security features in this session and will show for which use cases these new technologies have been developed, how they complement with existing technologies as well as potential security problems when relying on single features like these.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Speakers
Andreas Wolter's previous sessions
What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Security
This session will focus on the new features and capabilities that help you meet compliance and security needs with SQL Server on-premises as well as in Azure SQL Database. This includes the new Static Data Masking, new authentication capabilities, new functionalities in Vulnerability Assessment and Threat Detection as well as Always Encrypted. If you want to know about the latest developments in SQL Security, this session is for you.
“SQL Attack…ed” - SQL Server under attack: SQL Injection
In this purely demo-based session, I will show several real-life attacks, from mere reading up to disrupting service availability via various types of manual and automated SQL Injection, including a broadly unknown elevation of privileges attack.