Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight

Our next
meeting will be on Thursday, May
3rd, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our
gracious host....

Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability

One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...

Auditing with SQL Profiler

SQL Server includes a great auditing tool: Profiler. It's not the easiest tool to use, however, and it's one that takes some getting used to. Our resident security export, Brian Kelley looks at a simple example of using this tool to audit logins.

Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...

Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...

New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer

ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...

The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

Help Johnny, Help Kids

I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...

Microsoft CRM Security Internals

On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.

CRM is...