Security Design

Phishing Defenses

Steve has a few ideas on how to protect yourself from phishing scams.

Timing is Everything

A phishing attack is directed at engineers, but it could easily be pointed at IT pros.

Attacks Using Attacks

There are second order attacks on companies that can be devious and tricky.

The Problem with Users

Users cause lots of security issues, and we ought to try to work within that framework, with the understanding the we can't prevent all problems.

Ransomware and DevOps

Ransomware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Steve has some thoughts on how you should think about security in your database environment.

Password-less Authentication for Azure AD Guest Accounts with Azure SQL DB with Access Tokens

Learn how we can generate tokens that will give access to resources inside Azure without actually adding new users to your domain.

Spread the Word about Basic Security

This week we have a few back to the basics security comments from Steve.

Accessing Always Encrypted Data

Segments for Protection

Computer network security is important, and it's something we ought to be more concerned with as data professionals.