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®
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SECURITY_MUTEX
Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is SECURITY_MUTEX?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait has never occurred recently
SECURITY_MUTEX has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.