New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1: Encrypt Data At-Rest with Customer-Managed Encryption Key

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is encrypt data at-rest with customer-managed encryption key.

This capability will allow customers to meet their data and privacy policy according to the standard privacy guidelines.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: –
General Availability: May 2024

Feature Details

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 1, customers will gain the ability to encrypt their environment database using their own encryption key. This feature, also known as customer-managed key (CMK), provides enhanced data protection and compliance for your business data. With CMK, you can use your own Azure Key Vault key to protect and control access to the key that encrypts your environment database. This gives you more flexibility and control over your encryption keys, such as the ability to rotate, revoke, or restore them.

This feature will be administered in the Power Platform admin center, and will require the Business Central environment to be linked to a Power Platform environment. Enabling CMK on a Power Platform environment linked to a Business Central environment will apply the same CMK policy on the Power Platform and Business Central environments.