Securing SharePoint’s SQL Server Installation

SQL Server has a strong relationship with SharePoint Server 2010 as it is the back-end database repository for SharePoint data. All of SharePoint configuration and content databases are stored within SQL Server, which makes it highly important and recommended to follow security best practices on SQL Server, just as one would when securing SharePoint to minimize vulnerabilities.

The enforcement of SQL Server security should be one of the most important tasks SQL Server database administrators commit themselves to. Furthermore, to properly ensure that vulnerabilities are minimized, SQL Server security should be a part of both the test and production SQL Server systems.

Equally important, as a result ...

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