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Your SQL Server Database Owner Might be Causing Privilege Escalation

June 27, 2024 by Jeff Iannucci
Your SQL Server Database Owner Might be Causing Privilege Escalation

This post is part of our SQL Server security blog series, 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days. We’re publishing a new security check every day in the month of June. Visit our sp_CheckSecurity page to learn about our free SQL Server tool you can download and run to check your own server. SQL … Read more

Categories SQL Server Security Tags 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days, db_owner, sa account, sysadmin, TRUSTWORTHY, xp_cmdshell Leave a comment

Disable the sa Login [30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days]

June 1, 2024 by Jeff Iannucci

This post is part of our SQL Server security blog series, 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days. We’re publishing a new security check every day in the month of June. Visit our sp_CheckSecurity page to learn about our free SQL Server tool you can download and run to check your own server. Please … Read more

Categories SQL Server Security Tags 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days, Best Practices, database administration, sa account, sysadmin Leave a comment

18 Misconceptions: Your Database is [NOT] Secure!

March 7, 2023 by David Seis

Welcome to Myths and Misconceptions Month, or “Mythconceptions Month,” as we have lovingly referred to it in our internal discussions preparing this month’s content. We will have posts about the major Myths and Misconceptions we met as SQL Server DBA consultants. We hope you learn a lot from it! On to the content! Many companies … Read more

Categories SQL Server Security Tags cross-database ownership chaining, db_ddladmin, db_owners, linked servers, Mythconceptions, Ransomware, sa account, SQL Server Backups, sql server passwords, sysadmin, xp_cmdshell 1 Comment

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