Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...
2009-06-01
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Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do...
2009-05-29
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
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Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Speaking at Augusta Developer's Guild
Tomorrow night, May 28th, I'll be speaking the Augusta Developer's Guild. This is a make-up from earlier in the year...
2009-05-27
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Sick? Stay home!
Yesterday I did something I wouldn't have thought of doing a year ago: I stayed home. When I woke up,...
2009-05-19
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SQL Injection - Why I Don't Think Parameterization is Enough
Note:Since there have been several comments on this, I'm using parameterization at the application layer in the security sense of...
2009-05-15
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Rant: Is It an Effective Control or Not?
This is spurred on by a comment a pen tester made. He was referring to a particular technology and said...
2009-05-05
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A Dead Zune and Choices
Shortly after the Zune debuted, I purchased one. And I've been happy with it. It's done everything I expected out...
2009-05-04
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New Community Resource for IT Pros - Server Fault
Not too long ago the developer community got a fantastic resource called Stack Overflow. It's a question and answer site,...
2009-05-01
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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
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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