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Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing

This course is a practical approach to leveraging SQL Server to meet the needs of your industry compliance, audit, security, and encryption standards.

Intermediate
3h 40m
(45)

Created by Russ Thomas

Last Updated Jul 12, 2024

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Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing

This course is a practical approach to leveraging SQL Server to meet the needs of your industry compliance, audit, security, and encryption standards.

Intermediate
3h 40m
(45)

Created by Russ Thomas

Last Updated Jul 12, 2024

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Nearly every professional industry must adhere to some form of professional standard, regulation, or legislative requirement. While requirements vary, many of the approaches and methods you as the technical administrator will employ can be standardized across many tools available within SQL Server. In this course, Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing, you'll learn the most relevant features including new ones such as Always Encrypted released with SQL 2016. First, you'll discover how to use auditing features that are found within SQL Server. Next, you'll explore how to establish good sound encryption including capabilities that are new to SQL Server such as the 2016 release. Finally, you'll learn how SQL Server manages the different principles in groups and logical organizations of objects within a database instance. By the end of this course, you'll learn valuable security and auditing information in SQL Server.

Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
Intermediate
3h 40m
(45)
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Russ Thomas - Pluralsight course - Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
Russ Thomas
29 courses 4.6 author rating 845 ratings

Currently an IT leader in Denver Colorado's financial sector Russ has focused on database development, modelling, administration, and BI since 1997 across the Microsoft stack. Russ is a passionate trainer and SQL community volunteer presenting regularly at PASS SQL Saturday events and local user groups around the US.

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