I’ve been listening (and re-listening) to a number of MS Ignite presentations – I love getting insight into the direction, the goals and the overall vision that they present when they’re talking about big over-arching issues. Things like “tweak this statement” fade away and we’re left with directional, vision-oriented things. That’s the good stuff. It’s in the one of the […]
Author: Stephen Wynkoop
Security Ignorance is Bliss – But Not in a Good Way
I’ve been poking around more and more about security, about best practices and about data protection. I have spent a good deal of time watching the tried and true “Securing Your SQL Server” type sessions and trying to understand what is critical and what you can do about it. Security expert Duncan McAlynn (LinkedIn) sent me over a great video […]
Misleading Security Claims and Processes
I find myself shaking my head more and more about how things are rolling along with Security, and in particular (of course), data security. When I talk with people, and when you look at comments to posts on data breach articles, you see that so many don’t understand just how broad your data security and protection needs to be. I’ve...
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Assessing your SQL Server environment…
It’s a complex topic and area to cover – we’ll be talking about it on the webcast today, but I have questions… With cloud, on-premise, even different ways of implementing both, do you find that assessing your environment has gotten a whole lot more complex? I know with our systems, it sure has. Sure, the basic pieces are there – […]
SSWUGtv: SQL Injection, Security and Encryption
So much is happening on the data management and protection front. From movies to injection to keys to your data… There are a number of issues to know about on the show today – make sure you check it out and let me know of others we should be watching out for. Here’s a link to the show: https://sswug.org/katm/uncategorized/sql-injection-security-and-thoughts
Free webcast tomorrow: Assessing your SQL Server Environment…
You have SQL Servers you need to secure. But where do you start? In this presentation, we’ll look at how to do a security risk assessment on SQL Server. First we’ll start off with how to present your findings to management. What information do you need to give them? What will sway them to your side? We’ll then switch to […]
Data Flows, Movies and the Mouse
Practical application of social data streams is something that should change a LOT to do with our lives. Here’s one example, with all sorts of interesting ramifications…your mood and reception to the movie you’re watching. I saw this post about some work Disney is doing to figure out how people respond to movies. I think it would be fascinating to […]
Important distinctions about working in the cloud
Some real-world distinctions come into play as you implement different solutions – learning as we go, here are some of the things we’re hitting (and hearing from others). First, the distinction outlined in comments yesterday about providers having to control the performance and resource usage of services – this is at the core of one of the differences we’ve come […]
Mitigating Risk of Moving to SQL Server as a Service
Making the move to Azure for SQL Database services or even to Amazon’s RDS services for SQL Server can be hair-raising. I’m not sure why it’s so difficult. We’re in the process of moving the SQL Server as a service. We’ve been looking to understand the pros and cons of the two major service providers. It’s not as easy as […]
How do we know the information is correct?
All this sharing of data is moving ahead at such an incredible pace… but I have to wonder, are we missing a piece? I’ve been thinking a lot more about sharing data (as in preventing it unless it’s something you’re supposed to be doing) and then… it got me thinking. What would it take for someone to seed incorrect information? […]