Sharon Reid
Staff Database Administrator at NISA Investment Advisors
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Before the commencement of her reign as the "Database Security Czarina of NISA," Sharon Reid was an adjunct English professor. After taking a LaunchCode class on SQL, she was asked to be a teaching assistant and then took over as lead mentor for the SQL cohort for LaunchCode Women+. Currently, she is on the St. Louis SQL Server and BI user group advisory board. Sharon enjoys sharing her passion for database security and is determined to make it fun, practical and implemented.
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Seal the Envelope! Increase SQL Server Security by Setting Up and Using Encrypted Connections
Microsoft has made it easy to encrypt connections in SSMS and has made it the default in SQL Server 2025, but what do we have to do to make it work? Join me to find out what those new checkboxes when connecting to SQL Server mean and to walk through setting up your server to work with encrypted connections.
Ditching the Post-Its: Automating Temporary Database Permissions
Have you ever had to put a Post-It note on your computer monitor to remind yourself to remove a permission in a few days? I will share my journey with you from using Post-It notes to developing an automated process to grant temporary permissions on a SQL Server instance to only give people access to what they need when they need it. Increase database security without increasing your workload.
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