The Principle of Least Privilege
One of the tenets of good security is that no person or process is granted more rights than it needs...
2012-12-21 (first published: 2012-12-17)
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One of the tenets of good security is that no person or process is granted more rights than it needs...
2012-12-21 (first published: 2012-12-17)
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I saw a note this week from CNet about a system built to crack passwords (also on ArsTechnica). It reminded...
2012-12-18 (first published: 2012-12-12)
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Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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If you are bound by HIPAA regulations, you may have more auditing in your future. If you're not, perhaps you should still pay attention to the criteria being used for auditing.
2012-11-28
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Tony Davis argues that the Standards and best practices exist to avoid being hacked, but implementing them requires time and investment and often there simply doesn't seem to be the will to do it.
2012-11-26
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As you begin developing reports for deployment to a Report Server, what security considerations need to be taken into account in order to grant users access to run a report.
2012-10-31
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Today is black Tuesday for October 2012. One security bulletin is specifically for a component of the SQL Server stack:...
2012-10-15 (first published: 2012-10-09)
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I want to backup my SQL Server databases to a folder, but I want to minimize who has access to the folder. In other words, I want to make sure that members of the Windows Local Administrators group don't get to the backups without intentionally trying to bypass the security. How do I do that?
2012-10-02
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A database security survey for a CS student. If you can spare a few minutes, I know he'd appreciate it.
2012-09-26
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If we rewrite the coding rules, will software be more secure? Steve Jones thinks it might and that we should be constantly looking to change the techniques, patterns, and skills we have.
2012-09-24
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By Steve Jones
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with...
By Steve Jones
the McFly Effect – n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people...
At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation....
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