Obscurity is not Security

We’ve all heard the argument that using a different TCP port number for SQL, other than 1433, is more secure.  Here’s the truth, it isn’t.  Andy said it best here in a conversation on Twitter that happened in the #sqlhelp hash tag.  If you think that hiding your SQL Servers on a different TCP port…

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