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Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 6.1
Introducing IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 6.1: The Latest Release of Our Leading SQL Server Auditing Solution SQL Compliance Manager is the leading...
How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, data security has become an increasingly important...
Understanding Azure SQL Database Architecture
This blog will give you a glimpse into the internal architecture of SQL Database and brings to light some of the critical concepts that SQL Database...
Announcing the General Availability of SQL Compliance Manager 6.0
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Compliance Manager 6.0 SQL Compliance Manager is the industry leading SQL Server auditing solution that...
Do You Know the Real Costs of Regulatory Noncompliance?
Compliance or noncompliance, that is the question. Is it an economically sound strategy to spend the necessary resources to remain compliant with...
How to Create a Plan for Regulatory Compliance
Many reasons may make it important for an organization that collects and stores digital information to be concerned with regulatory compliance. Data...
Are You Willing to Pay the Price of Non-Compliance?
Data privacy is a hot topic in the world of information technology and promises to remain so for the foreseeable future. As the shift continues to a...
How do you ensure the security of personally identifiable information (PII) within U.S. federal government agencies?
Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) in the government's possession and preventing incidents and breaches are essential to...
How should you handle the complexities of regulatory compliance?
The reliance on digitally stored information continues to grow and now dominates society in the 21st Century. The use of the Internet for business...
Which items do you need to audit in SQL Server?
SQL Server provides robust capabilities to monitor itself, and it can be easy to be overwhelmed with the choices presented through catalog or...
What do you need to know about compliance audits?
Compliance audits are an inescapable part of the information technology world we live in. A compliance audit is a detailed review that is conducted...
The Important Role of Compliance Reporting
The way organizations handle sensitive and personal information regarding their customers and employees has radically changed in the last twenty...
Tips That Will Tighten Up Your SQL Server Security
Security is an important topic that may not always get the attention it deserves from your organization’s database developers. While the...
How to Provide Compliance Evidence to Auditors
There’s no getting around it. The only way to satisfy the demands of auditors and demonstrate your organization’s compliance with the...
Survival in the Land of Compliance Audits
As you innocently go about your daily work activities on a Friday afternoon you notice a new email and crack it open. The message is from management...
Ensuring Security By Monitoring Performance
In the conclusion of our blog series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance, we outline how performance metrics can be...
Metrics To Optimize Security and Performance
Next in our series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance: we explore best practices for capacity planning as well as...
The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance
Welcome to our new blog series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance. This series will cover best practices that will...
Get Prepared for an American GDPR
Business vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com From its definition of a data breach to the size of the punitive fines it has the power to...
Enjoy May Day without “mayday” – protect your SQL Server data
May 1st is traditionally celebrated as “May Day” to welcome the return of spring. In Central Texas, we often get a lot of rain in the...
What has happened with GDPR in the last 9 months?
Largest Fine To Date Google recently made the news with a $57M (50M Euro) fine imposed by the French Regulatory building, CNIL. The case against...
Data Modeling Still Important in a Big Data, Analytics World
As more organizations embrace big data and analytics to gain insight from extremely large data sets the tools and systems that we use to manage data...
GDPR vs CCPA – A Quick Look
On June 28th, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). It will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Guidelines must...