Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an author, columnist, and Microsoft SQL Server MVP focusing primarily on SQL Server security. He is a contributing author for How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 (Syngress), Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox), and Introduction to SQL Server (Texas Publishing). Brian currently serves as an infrastructure and security architect. He has also served as a senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA, database architect, developer, and incident response team lead.

Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology

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SSIS Security Presentation today, May 29th

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I are teaming up to do a security presentation today on SSIS. It's scheduled for 11 AM...

2013-05-29

842 reads

You Must Cross Teams for Sound Security

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I've given a couple of security presentations recently where I talked about how you must keep track of how security...

2013-05-29

1,076 reads

DR planning article up at MSSQLTips!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

My latest article is up at MSSQLTips.com:

Disaster Recovery Planning for Microsoft SQL Server - Getting Backups and Restores Right

For more of...

2013-05-23

849 reads

Giving an SSIS security webinar with Andy Leonard

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I are teaming up to do a security presentation on SSIS. It's scheduled for Wednesday, May...

2013-05-23

1,046 reads

Do you check to see if an SSIS package has been modified?

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) and I are putting together a presentation on protecting the entire ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline, specifically...

2013-05-22

2,725 reads