I'm with zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC, what question are you attempting to answer? If you want to secure the database at runtime, your best answer is to have it locked down

I'm with zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC, what question are you attempting to answer? If you want to secure the database at runtime, your best answer is to have it locked down at the ports and the access ids. If you want to protect it at rest, yes, an encrypted drive would prevent someone from stealing the drive and reading the data. It won't help against anything else. This might help as a primer for this type of question: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/16939/is-it-generally-a-bad-idea-to-encrypt-database-fields https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/16939/is-it-gen... Edit: grammar.