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We Are Not Alone – Protecting Your Data From Alien Data Probes
They walk among us, blending in perfectly, impossible to distinguish from normal humans. Nobody knows where they came from or what their mission is. Never staying in one place for long, they roam...
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Using Encryption To Protect Your Data From Alien Abduction
Yes, I’m continuing the alien theme for my series on encryption. It seems to fit well, and I just like the little green alien dude. I’m going to start the series by discussing the use of encryption...
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Using SQL Server 2008 As Part of Your Alien Defense Force
Change of plans – instead of covering column-level encryption, I’m going to walk through setting up TDE (transparent data encryption) in SQL Server 2008. I ran into a situation today that challenged...
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 1
A big part of my job is controlling security to multiple production databases, and reporting on that security for quarterly audits. In my environment, it’s not important to know who has access to...
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I presented a T-SQL query that will return a summary of login permissions within a SQL 2005/2008 database. I also mentioned that SQL 2000 requires a slightly different query....
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 3
In this episode, I’m going to start introducing some of the Powershell elements that tie this audit process together. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a Powershell expert, I have only recently begun to use it....
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 4
Previously, on REAL-SQL-Guy… We were introduced to two SQL queries to obtain database login permissions, one for SQL Server 2000, one for SQL Server 2005 and higher. We saw how these queries, combined...
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 5
If you’ve followed along to this point, and have assembled the pieces as I’ve given them to you, you’re now looking at a Powershell script that is slowing getting more complex. By now, you should be...
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Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 6
Everybody still with me? Have you tried the script from Part 5? Did you notice how SLOW the Active Directory lookups are? They’re not fast, that’s for sure. On one of my servers, the number of...
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