Question : How to Protect a Client connection to remote SQL Server Database

What security protection do you need when you are using a client application to connect to a Hosted instance of SQL server. Either directly or using MS Sync. How do you implement these protections.

Answer : How to Protect a Client connection to remote SQL Server Database

You can force protocol encryption. This forces all communication to be SSL encrypted. Therefore if anoyone sniffs the packets, they can't make any sense of the data.

There is some overhead in this - you need to deploy certificates to clients, set up certificates on the SQL Server. There is also proecssing overhead in encrypting and decrypting the data.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189067.aspx