Resources

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

Get-SqlSafe.ps1: The Sarpedon SQL Server Security Community Assessment

Run 25 core SQL Server security checks, completely free.

Secure your SQL Server instances with the same baseline checks used in our professional audits.

Get-SqlSafe is a simple, robust PowerShell script that safely scans your server environment for 25 core vulnerabilities.

Fully compatible with SQL Server 2016 through 2025, it focuses on the instance-level misconfigurations and permission creep that generic tools often miss. Designed to be completely transparent, it operates under strict least privilege principles (no sysadmin rights required) and outputs a clean, visual HTML report – making it easy to pass findings directly on to decision-makers.

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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