SQL Server Row-Level Security: A Comparison with Gallium Data

A quick look at how the native SQL Server Row-Level Security compares with Gallium Data's solution for limiting access to rows of data.

Row-Level Security Predicates

Dropping the Aggregate

Cybersecurity threats

Not a week goes by without news of a new cyberattack. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the cybersecurity threats in today’s world.

Maybe It Is DNS

It might be DNS is the problem more often in the future. Steve notes the attacks on this system are rising.

The Danger of Management Access

First we had the Solarwinds hack, and now we have a Kaseya ransomware epidemic. It seems the criminals are moving up the stack. We used to see physical attacks on tapes and keyboards, then we saw OS level attacks. Now we seem to be getting to the management layer for software that is used to […]

The Tech Blame Game

There has been a trend to blame a single IT person, or a small group, for issues in large enterprises. Nowhere else in the corporate world would one person be blamed for a major failure.

SQL Server security – Providing a security model using user-defined roles

Greg Larsen continues his series and shows how user-defined roles roles can control SQL Server security.

Hostage Data

New ransomware is not only encrypting, but copying data.

Ransomware May Get Worse

Criminal groups using ransomware are working together, which is bad news for all organizations.