Tag Archives: security

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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How Many Times Will You Change a Password?

Posted on September 7, 2015 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. If you create a login and the user can’t log in, how many times will you change the password? … Continue reading →

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The Security Payoff

Posted on July 30, 2015 by way0utwest

I wrote a few months ago about United offering rewards for people that discovered security issues in the United Airlines software. Not the plane software, thankfully, but in their customer facing IT systems. Apparently a few people discovered flaws and were recently awarded … Continue reading →

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