A Security Roadmap
Morris Lewis · Apress eBooks · 2004
In many ways , securing SQL Server reminds me of paintings by Monet I saw at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston years ago. When you stand very close to Monet’s paintings, all you see is little dots of color. It is only when you stand back that you see how the dots converge into a complete picture. Obviously, Monet had to focus on where he placed each spot of paint, but it is equally obvious that he knew where those daubs of paint were going to go before he started painting. For a database server, the daubs of paint might be a user, or a permission, or a piece of data, and the picture they form shows how they all relate to each other, and how they fulfill the primary goal of giving people no more and no less than the rights they need to accomplish their tasks. Much like the painting, we need to focus on where we will assign permissions, but we also need to have the big picture in mind before we start. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.