The Voice of the DBA Expect an Attack

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Jun 23, 2009 Expect an Attack

Do you expect your company's network to get hacked this year? What about your SQL Servers? According to this story, most companies (94%) expect to get hacked this year. That's kind of amazing to me. It reminds me of the SPAM problems where so many people just expect to get a regular amount of SPAM mail sent to them. I think filters have really cut down on the amount of SPAM I receive, going from dozens, or even hundreds a day to just a few now that are unsolicited.

Here at SQLServerCentral, we've been attacked a few times. Our database has been the victim of SQL Injection attacks in the past, though I hope that we've closed all those holes by now. I haven't seen anything go awry recently (knock on wood), but I'm sure that we are probed or even attacked on a regular basis.

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