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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We sometimes focus more on the wireless side of the network when it comes to security because Wi-Fi has no physical fences. After all, a war-driver can detect your SSID and launch an attack while ...

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 ...