That would be what Invincea is pushing http://www.invincea.com/. One of my cyber-security colleagues was telling me about them recently, as a way to reduce the risk of malware infection. If...

IT security isn't limited to the design and implementation of applications. It also includes the users and infrastructure, and has to be assisted by strong support from management up to...

Security has to become an integral part of the corporate culture. A good way to jump start that is to implement policies around applications and security that make a risk...

SanDroid (6/22/2011)

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Ross McMicken (6/22/2011)

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Uh, no. Banks have been responsible for forged checks for decades, especially if you reported the loss of the checks. As for credit cards, consumers in the...

SanDroid (6/22/2011)

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IceDread (6/22/2011)

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It also does not harm the consumer because the bank refunds you on lost capital if you somehow lost cash in a card scam or security breach....

@CEWII, unless the existing regulations force company executives to personally feel the pain, they will be ignored to the extent it's more economic to do so. One of the better...

blandry (6/22/2011)

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Think about it - there used to be a company called Arthur Andersen. During the Enron debacle they lied, shredded documents and a number of their staff were...

GSquared (6/17/2011)

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Ross McMicken (6/17/2011)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/14/2011)

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+3 (or 4) on Word. I tend to write in One Note or Edit Plus, and I'll drop into Word for spell/grammar...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/14/2011)

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+3 (or 4) on Word. I tend to write in One Note or Edit Plus, and I'll drop into Word for spell/grammar checks, but the...

I've seen them used very successfully in applications where the end users have choices on configuration. An accounting system I used to support allowed users to create ledgers with 2...

Joe, you are missing a - sign in the exponent. that should be 10^-5, not 10^5

Divide by 43560. My memory key for an acre is that one acre is 66*660 square feet. That's one chain by 10 chains. A chain is 66 square feet.

Why would you want to remove windows authentication? Our goal is to never use SQL authentication, and we only do so when required by a vendor application.

Rudy Panigas (2/3/2011)

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I think companies will use cloud computing to off load the security liability. If the data is lost/stolen they can then put the blame on the cloud computing...

I can't think of a situation, other than stupidly written vendor apps, where any developer or DBA would need to login using SA as opposed to granting SA equvalency to...