Cyber Attacks – it is a shame

This is a great definition for what I have to deal with on a continuing basis “Cyber security is the state or process of protecting and recovering networks, devices and programs from any type of cyberattack. Cyberattacks are an evolving danger to organizations, employees and consumers. They may be designed to access or destroy sensitive …

External Database Ports Normally closed in our firewall configurations

Database ports (1433,1434,3306,5432) are nominally closed in our firewall configurations. We have the capability to open these should a need be identified to read directly from the server database. If we do open these ports they will be secured such that will only be opened to specific IP addresses. for securities sake.