I’m very excited by to see the pubic preview of the Azure Key Vault service. A blog has been started to cover the technical aspects and can be found here http://blogs.technet.com/b/kv/ One of the only things I’ve been speaking about in conferences recently has been compliance and encryption. https://www.sqlbits.com/Sessions/Event12/Achieving_PCI_with_SQL_Server-Dont_be_the_next_Sony The most complex part of the the demos I do in that session is the key management story. Key management in SQL is possible...(read more)

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/archive/2015/01/09/managing-encryption-keys-in-sql-azure-key-vault.aspx