Encrypting Sensitive Data in Rails 7 with Encrypted Attributes - DEV Community

At Zonmaster, we manage a substantial amount of sensitive data, including Personally Identifiable... Tagged with webdev, rails, encryption, security.Recently I posted an article about moving some data out of our MySQL database and into S3 files. In that article, I mentioned that these columns were encrypted. Because Zonmaster started out life in 2015 it uses a home-grown encryption solution.But now Rails 7 has introduced a powerful feature to help developers protect sensitive data: encrypted attributes. This built-in functionality provides an additional layer of security that is both easy to implement and robust.