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, ...

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 ...

If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

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 ...

To thwart network attacks, you first need to be on top of critical security events occurring in your network. While monitoring network performance is important for troubleshooting and ensuring smooth ...

Many of us don’t give much thought to just what is traversing the corporate network. That is largely a job for the company’s system administrator. The thing of it is, though, the sysadmin quite often ...

Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of the IT landscape these days, and the ability to audit database activities showing who did what to which data when is a specific requirement of many ...

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 ...

A recent audit of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) identified gaps and deficiencies in how state IT networks are managed and secured, prompting on-the-spot ...

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