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

Bad Admins: Stealing An Account

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yesterday I posted about manipulating group membership to get access to a SQL Server. Today comes attack vector #2: stealing an...

2011-07-14

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Bad Admins: Attacking via Group Membership

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

This is a series of blog posts about how administrators can gain access to SQL Server, even if you try...

2011-07-13

1,875 reads

Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...

2011-06-16

1,896 reads

Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

The emails came in today and 2 out of 4 of my sessions were selected. Both are the ones I...

2011-06-15

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Planning Your Upgrade Well

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...

2011-06-07

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The Importance of a Business Recovery Plan

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Recently I was in one of those chain restaurants (the middle-priced, sit-down types) and shortly after we got there, we...

2011-06-06

1,900 reads

Re-Focusing the Blog a Bit

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In recent weeks I've strayed pretty much all over the map with respect to topics. I have another blog, the...

2011-06-01

744 reads

Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

As an infrastructure type person, I typically represent a "shared" resource. What that means is I'm not dedicated to just...

2011-05-13

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You Are Responsible for You

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Steve Jones wrote an editorial yesterday called The Poor Soul. It talked about being thrown into a responsibility one didn't...

2011-05-12

748 reads

Dealing with Frustration in the Workplace

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Inevitably, even if we work for ourselves, we get frustrated with our workplace. This is true of all aspects of...

2011-05-11

3,031 reads

Blogs

Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)

By Vinay Thakur

This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...

Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container

By MarlonRibunal

In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...

Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code

Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Certificates

Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?

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