Tag Archives: security

The Personal Checksum

Posted on August 30, 2012 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Nov 2, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. Someone sent me this article on foiling thieves in restaurants with a personal checksum. It’s an interesting idea and while it could help, … Continue reading →

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Enable Transparent Data Encryption

Posted on August 28, 2012 by way0utwest

This is one of the things in my Encryption Primer presentation that I don’t demo. It’s really easy to do, and it’s rather mechanical, so I just show the image that has the steps from MSDN and leave it at … Continue reading →

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Make a Backup First

Posted on August 22, 2012 by way0utwest

I was reading in detail about the Apple / Amazon hack that targeted a Gizmodo writer.  A hacker used a few techniques to get from his Amazon account to his Apple account, his GMail, Twitter, and more. His iPhone, iPad, and Macbook … Continue reading →

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Where’s My Certificate Backup?

Posted on August 16, 2012 by way0utwest

If you’re like me, you take advantage of the default backup paths in SQL Server. It makes my code cleaner, and if I need to move the instance somewhere else, all my code works. No pathing issues. A certificate backup … Continue reading →

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