My final event of the year will be Black Hat Europe in London, the first week in December. This will be my second Black Hat event; the first was this past August when me and 20,000 of my closest security professional friends invaded Las Vegas. I know it may seem odd for a career database … Read more
SQL injection is a common form of data theft. I am hopeful we can make SQL injection protection more common. The 2018 TrustWave Global Security Report listed SQL Injection as the second most common technique for web attacks, trailing only cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is a 38% increase from the previous year. That same … Read more
I want to help in the struggle against the adversaries. I’ve identified seven data security measures you can use. These ‘Seven Samurai’ will protect against all three possible attack vectors: data at rest, data in use, and data in motion.
GDPR compliance may be hard, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy. To me, data security and privacy are worth the extra effort.
I wrote a post to help explain the Microsoft Azure Threat Detection types that are available.
Last week I wrote about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Today I want to show you how to check if your database server is protected against Meltdown and Spectre.
