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SECURITY_MUTEX

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is SECURITY_MUTEX?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when there is a wait for mutexes that control access to the global list of Extensible Key Management (EKM) cryptographic providers and the session-scoped list of EKM sessions. Information from Microsoft®

Never

This wait has never occurred recently

SECURITY_MUTEX has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.

Prevalence of SECURITY_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population