Chapter 1
Securing the Network
Information in this chapter:
• Securing the Network
• Public IP Addresses versus Private IP Addresses
• Accessing SQL Server from Home
• Physical Security
• Social Engineering
• Finding the Instances
• Testing the Network Security
• Summary
Securing the network
You may think that talking about the network is a strange way to start off an Structured Query Language (SQL) Server book, but the network, specifically the perimeter of your network, is the way that external threats will be coming to attack your SQL Server. A poorly defended network will therefore give an attacker an easier time to attack your network than if the network were properly secured. In larger companies the network design and lockdown would ...
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