Microsoft MVP Ed Leighton-Dick will teach a pre-conference session on SQL Server security at SQLSaturday Washington DC on December 8, 2017. For full details, including a full syllabus and registration information, see our Eventbrite page.
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Despite the overwhelming evidence that the risk and the financial consequences of cyber-attacks are enormous, we still hear, “Nobody is going to hack us…we don’t have anything they want,” or “We can’t get hacked because _____,” with the blank being things like “we use cloud applications” or “we have a good firewall,” “our people are too smart to click on bad links in e-mails,” or other similar “reasons” for their false sense of security. They explain it away.
