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Badly Encrypted Databases

Posted on March 13, 2019 by way0utwest

I ran across a blog about encrypted databases linked from Bruce Schneier’s blog. I follow his musings and writings on security ,and he recommended we read it with this sentence: “Even the summary is too much to summarize, so read it.” … Continue reading →

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The Data Incident

Posted on March 6, 2019 by way0utwest

I was reading a Google whitepaper and I think this was the first time I’d seen a potential loss of data referred to as a data incident. The paper deals with the response from the Google Cloud team if there are potential … Continue reading →

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Schema Security

Posted on March 1, 2019 by way0utwest

How many of you grant access to schemas in your databases? I’m curious because I slowly am starting to see more and more people using schemas in their designs and not defaulting every object to “dbo”. That was the default … Continue reading →

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The Employee Target

Posted on February 25, 2019 by way0utwest

We hear regularly about consumer backlash from data breaches. There are usually legal repercussions, and often hard dollars (euros, yen, etc.) being spent on things like identity protection or credit monitoring. In addition, in the last couple of years, there … Continue reading →

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