Securing sensitive data in SQL databases

Sensitive data, such as personal information, financial records, or confidential documents, is often stored in SQL databases for various applications and purposes. However, this also exposes the data to potential risks of unauthorized access, theft, leakage, or corruption. Therefore, it is essential to secure sensitive data in SQL databases and protect it from malicious attacks or accidental errors.

This recipe will show how to store sensitive data, such as credit card information, in SQL databases.

Getting ready

To follow the recipe, you need to have an application with a database connection already in place.

Furthermore, we will use the cryptography package. If you haven’t installed it with the requirements.txt file, you can do it by running this command in your environment:

$ pip install cryptography

A sound knowledge of cryptography can be beneficial but is not necessary.

How to do it…

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