Securing SQL Server
DBAs Defending the Database
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Beschreibung
Protect your data from attack by using SQL Server technologies to implement a defense-in-depth strategy for your database, consisting of multiple layers of protection. Learn to perform threat analysis, and to encrypt sensitive data as a last line of defense against compromise. The multi-layered approach in this book helps ensure that a single breach doesn't lead to loss or compromise of your data that is confidential and important to the business.
Database professionals in today's world deal increasingly often with repeated data attacks against high-profile organizations and sensitive data. It is more important than ever to keep your company’s data secure. Securing SQL Server demonstrates how administrators and developers can both play their part in the protection of a SQL Server environment.
This book provides a comprehensive technical guide to the security model, and to encryption within SQL Server, including coverage of the latest security technologies such as Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row Level Security. Most importantly, the book gives practical advice and engaging examples on how to defend your data -- and ultimately your job! -- against attack and compromise.
- Covers the latest security technologies, including Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row Level Security
- Promotes security best-practice and strategies for defense-in-depth of business-critical database assets
- Gives advice on performing threat analysis and reducing the attack surface that your database presents to the outside world
Protect your data from attack by using SQL Server technologies to implement a defense-in-depth strategy, performing threat analysis, and encrypting sensitive data as a last line of defense against compromise. The multi-layered approach in this book helps ensure that a single breach doesn't lead to loss or compromise of your data that is confidential and important to the business.
Database professionals in today's world deal increasingly often with repeated data attacks against high-profile organizations and sensitive data. It is more important than ever to keep your company’s data secure. Securing SQL Server demonstrates how administrators and developers can both play their part in the protection of a SQL Server environment.
This book provides a comprehensive technical guide to the security model, and to encryption within SQL Server, including coverage of the latest security technologies such as Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row Level Security. Most importantly, the book gives practical advice and engaging examples on how to defend your data -- and ultimately your job! -- against attack and compromise.
- Covers the latest security technologies, including Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row Level Security
- Promotes security best-practice and strategies for defense-in-depth of business-critical database assets
- Gives advice on performing threat analysis and reducing the attack surface that your database presents to the outside world
- Perform threat analysis
- Implement access level control and data encryption
- Avoid non-reputability by implementing comprehensive auditing
- Use security metadata to ensure your security policies are enforced
- Apply the latest SQL Server technologies to increase data security
- Mitigate the risk of credentials being stolen
SQL Server database administrators who need to understand and counteract the threat of attacks against their company’s data. The book is also of interest to database administrators of other platforms, as several of the attack techniques are easily generalized beyond SQL Server and to other database brands.
Provides real-world examples and discussion on the implementation of security
Helps in implementing an encryption strategy that best suits your needs
Promotes a proactive approach to security, including threat analysis and defence-in-depth
Corporate and confidential data are under siege! News of attack and compromised data is an almost daily occurrence. The sophistication of attackers is growing, with many now being trained and paid by rival governments. Such is the world that database professionals live in, and Peter Carter is here to help with his guide to implementing a comprehensive security strategy in SQL Server.
Peter's book provides technical guidance and detailed real world examples of how to implement a comprehensive security strategy in a SQL Server environment. It ultimately promotes a proactive approach to security, for developers and administrators alike, including threat analysis and how to use metadata to enforce a security strategy, helping you stay a step ahead of the bad guys.
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Peter A. Carter