Searching an Encrypted Column
This article examines the challenges with searches on encrypted data and presents a possible solution that you might use to speed up those queries.
2023-12-15
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Security
Breaking Biometrics
Fingerprint readers on laptops are shown not to be as secure as they could be, and primarily because the manufacturers haven't done a good job implementing the secure protocols.
2023-12-11
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Data Security and AI
Today Steve discusses an aspect of AI that many people are concerned about: data security. Read more and think about how this might affect your organization.
2023-11-27
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How to get your security team on board with your cloud migration
In this second part of the Q&A with Dustin Dorsey, we asked him about how to get buy-in from security teams who are cautious by nature, how to encourage the wider IT team to accept their recommendations, and what additional challenges highly regulated sectors like healthcare and finance face.
2023-11-17
Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?
While the cloud is recognized as more secure than on-premises servers and infrastructures, it does come with the often talked about shared responsibility model. Cloud providers are responsible for security ‘of’ the cloud, while their clients are responsible for security ‘in’ the cloud. Find out more in this Q&A with Dustin Dorsey
2023-11-13
Bad Culture Bad Security
Another company has hard-coded credentials, which Steve feels are a sign of bad culture.
2023-10-23
139 reads
Practicing (Annoying) Better Security
Steve has had to change his security, which is good, but annoying.
2023-10-18
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2023-10-14
89 reads
Power BI Workspace Permissions and Roles
What are the Power BI workspace permissions and roles and how are they used?
2023-10-06
The Need for DevSecOps
DevOps is great, but Steve thinks we need to ensure we include security is a part of what we do when building and deploying software.
2023-10-02
135 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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