Overview of the issue: It is a third party SQL server with lot of login attempts trying to login SQL server from different IP address which are all out of our IP ranges. Errors in the log as below. 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8. 18456, Severity: 14, State: 5. 18456, Severity: 14, State: 7. Login failed for user ‘sa’. Reason: An error occurred while evaluating the password. [CLIENT: x.x.x.x] Login failed for user ‘xx’. Reason: Could not find a login matching the name provided. [CLIENT: x.x.x.x] It tried with many logins and most of the hits are from USA using SA account. As a first step, have renamed the…