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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Cloud? Chotto Matte Kudasai.

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you're not familiar with Chotto matte kudasai, it means "A moment, please," in Japanese. The cloud is big news....

2011-10-14

1,207 reads

Speaking at the 2011 Carolina Technology Conference

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, I will be speaking at the Carolina Technology Conference in Columbia, SC. I'm scheduled for...

2011-10-14

1,406 reads

A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...

2011-10-13

938 reads

Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...

2011-10-13

993 reads

Learn to Help Yourself

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

I used to work with a guy who was adamant that before you asked him for help, you had done the...

2011-10-11

1,298 reads

PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...

2011-10-10

1,411 reads

Advanced Persistent Threats and Us

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

In a blog post from last year, Richard Bejtlich (blog | twitter) talked about a concept called an Advanced Persistent Threat...

2011-10-07

1,319 reads

Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2

by Brian Kelley

Databases – Infrastructure – Security

When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...

2011-10-06

2,701 reads