Skip to main content

SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment

SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 17 or later lets SQL Server scan your databases for potential security vulnerabilities and it can be run against SQL Server 2012 or higher. If you are not using a new version of SQL Server Management Studio, you can download it from here.

The process is designed to meet the data privacy standards and compliance using knowledge base rules that look for deviations from Microsoft’s best practices. Using this you can improve your SQL Server’s security.

To run an assessment simply choose a database, right-click and choose Tasks. Here, you will see Vulnerability Assessment choose that and Scan for Vulnerabilities. If you have run one previously, you can access it here by choosing Open Existing Scan.


It will pop up a window to choose where you want the results saved. Once you click ok, the process will run.



Here, you can see my results from the "chat"database. It has 3 failed items and 52 have passed. It lists each item and assigns an appropriate risk level.


Clicking on one of the listed items under failed gives you more details and remediation steps with scripts to fix it. Let’s look.

In this example, I chose an easy one. You can see below it gives us a description of the best practice rule not followed.


SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment is a great non-third party starting place for evaluating data privacy, security and compliance standards.
Labels:
Location: United States

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to write Unit Tests in .net

Unit tests are automated tests that verify the behavior code like methods and functions. Writing unit tests is crucial to clean coding, as they help ensure your code works as intended and catches bugs early in the development process. I can share some tips for writing effective unit tests: Write tests for all public methods Every public method in your code should have a corresponding unit test. This helps ensure that your code behaves correctly and catches any unexpected behavior early. public class Calculator { public int Add(int a, int b) { return a + b; } } [TestClass] public class CalculatorTests { [TestMethod] public void Add_ShouldReturnCorrectSum() { // Arrange Calculator calculator = new Calculator(); int a = 1; int b = 2; // Act int result = calculator.Add(a, b); // Assert Assert.AreEqual(3, result); } } Test boundary conditions  Make sure to test boundary conditions, such a...
Post a Comment
Read more

What to choose between .NET Core and .NET?

 .NET Framework is a better choice if you: you don't have enough time time to learn new technology. Need a stable environment to work in. Have nearer release schedules. you are already working on an existing app and extending its functionality. If already have an existing team with .NET expertise and building production-ready software. Do not want to deal with continuous upgrades and changes. Building Windows client applications using Windows Forms or WPF .NET Core is a better choice if you: IF you wanted to deploy your app on Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. Are not afraid of learning new things. Are not afraid of breaking and fixing things since .NET Core is not fully matured yet. When you are learning .NET. work on open source.
Post a Comment
Read more