Large organizations may have hundreds of servers and thousands of computers as clients of those servers. Ensuring the security of such a vast array of computers and the data stored thereon is a big ...

How can you confirm your systems are configured appropriately and maintain that configuration over time? In our tests, Preventsys Network Audit and Policy Assurance 1.5 proved to be a flexible, ...

Information security audits are on the rise, as organizations look to not only bolster their security postures, but demonstrate their efforts to other parties such as regulators. Audits, which are ...

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As an administrator, you have a great many tools at your fingertips. One of the tools you do not want to ignore is Active Directory Auditing. By auditing certain events, you can record which user is ...

Businesses often view data security audit as a stressful and intrusive process. An auditor walks around distracting everybody and meddling in regular company operations. The usefulness of conducting ...

Datiphy, a service provider founded in Taiwan, has bundled its technology for sale as a software package to make inroads in the U.S. as a security/data auditing tool that detects and reports ...

Why would anyone need firewall audit software? If you're already jugging hundreds of rules on multiple firewalls, here's what these tools can do for you. Firewall audit tools automate the otherwise ...

I am conducting a network security audit. I ran port scans on all relevent servers and desktop. I used superscan. It revealed a great deal of information ...