Resources

Professional-grade tools and foundational checklists to safely audit and secure your SQL Server environment.

Get-SqlSafe.ps1 – SQL Server Security Community Edition

Perform 25+ baseline SQL Server security checks and generate a local HTML security report.

Get-SqlSafe Community Edition is a free PowerShell-based SQL Server security assessment for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 through 2025. It helps identify common indicators of risk, including auditing gaps, NTLM usage, excessive privileges, risky role memberships, orphaned users, ownership drift, and security-relevant configuration choices.

Version 2026.4 adds optional AWS RDS compatibility mode for AWS-managed SQL Server environments.

Get-SqlSafe runs locally, does not transmit assessment data to Sarpedon Quality Lab or any external service, and does not change SQL Server configuration or data.

It is intended as a practical first look at SQL Server security posture and does not replace a comprehensive SQL Server Security Assessment.

The Database Application Vendor’s SQL Server Security & High Availability Checklist

A blueprint for secure-by-default, resilient data applications.

As a database application vendor, the security and reliability of your software are key competitive differentiators. As a Database Administrator, your priority is ensuring that hosted databases do not expose data or the environment to risk. We developed this checklist to bridge that gap. Following this guidance not only helps align with ISO 27001 controls, but ensures that your product can be trusted against the backdrop of a demanding enterprise environment and an evolving threat landscape.

To the Checklist (Current version: 2): sqlserverdatabaseapplicationsecurityandhighavailabilitychecklist_v2

 

SQL Server Database Application Security & High Availability Checklist

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