Today’s enterprise security teams are being tasked to protect sensitive data distributed over a wide range of databases on-premises and in the cloud. This paper offers a detailed look at why the demand for database encryption is becoming more critical and challenging. The paper offers an overview of the key approaches required to address this increased demand, and it outlines the different types of encryption approaches—helping IT architects, CISO’s, and database security experts ensure they’re using the right tools for the right purposes. Finally, it offers a look at Thales’ extensive portfolio of data protection solutions, and reveals how these solutions enable security teams to address their database security objectives in an efficient, holistic manner.