Professional auditor Shawn Bernard of Networks Unlimited exposes risks overlooked by IT staff of a New England medical center. Only a security audit can expose the truth about a network’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called Wednesday for annual cybersecurity audits for FirstNet—the high-speed communications platform designed to be used by first responders and military personnel—to identify ...

Gartner Inc. estimates that 70% of network security incidents involve those inside the corporate firewall. And according to a joint Computer Security Institute/FBI study, the insider threat is more ...

Mobile Device Management systems can get complicated quickly, so it’s important to keep tabs on what’s working and what’s not — and then make sure you fix whatever is broken. Before you can do that, ...