Monthly Archives: September 2015

Data Masking for Convenience

Posted on September 23, 2015 by way0utwest

I was at Microsoft in Redmond recently and heard an interesting comment from a SQL Server developer. I was debating the data masking feature with a friend, and we were torn on the value of this for various situations we’d … Continue reading →

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Everyone is a Target

Posted on September 23, 2015 by way0utwest

There was a piece in Dark Reading about a security researcher being targeted by a hacking group. While this is more political, this does raise some questions about how hackers might target our systems in the future. It just might be through … Continue reading →

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Trying Spoon

Posted on September 23, 2015 by way0utwest

I ran into Kenji Obata of Spoon earlier this year and we ended up chatting about their technology. If you’ve never heard of them, they use container technology to allow applications to run on a Windows host, but separated from … Continue reading →

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Data Sprawl

Posted on September 22, 2015 by way0utwest

When I was starting in the computer industry, it seemed that we had many choices for platforms, but once we had decided on a direction, the companies I worked for standardized on those systems. It seemed that there was less … Continue reading →

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