David Kahn, legendary author, has passed away
I first saw this at Schneier on Security. David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, has passed away at 93. The Codebreakers was considered the best book on the history...
2024-02-05
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Security Justifications for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) put out an emergency directive which ordered federal agencies to pull Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure installations from...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-05)
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The DevOps Airways Roadshow
I love this logo. Our marketing people were very creative. After the van tour last year, we decided to go with a plane this year. I wrote about the...
2024-02-05
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Moving towards the DataFrame API using the Spark Connect gRPC API in .NET
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Goal of this post So there are two goals of this post, the first is to take a look at Apache Arrow and how we can...
2024-02-05
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Getting Started With SQL Server Always Encrypted
Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Navigating in Flyway Desktop
Flyway Desktop changed the navigation and a few people were surprised. I was as well, so I decided to do a short tip on the changes. This is part...
2024-02-16 (first published: 2024-02-02)
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ISACA Journal Article on AI
The first issue of 2024 for the ISACA Journal has been published and the articles are available both in written and on-line format. I have a regular column on...
2024-02-02
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A New Word: Tarrion
tarrion – n. an odd interval of blankness you feel after something big happens to you bt before you feel the resulting emotional reaction – stunned by a sudden...
2024-02-02
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Azure Function App doesn’t retrieve most recent secret value from Azure Key Vault
Quite a long title for quite an annoying issue. Let me explain the set-up first: I have pipelines running in Azure Data Factory and I want to send e-mails...
2024-02-03 (first published: 2024-02-02)
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SQL Server Autogrowth Settings Changes
Today, I want to discuss a topic that has been a bit of a headache for database administrators and consultants: the changes to SQL...
2024-02-01
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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
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Checking the Error Log II
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