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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Failing an audit sounds like the last thing any company wants to happen. But that’s because audits are seen by many as the goal of a security program. In reality, audits are only the means of testing ...

Cybersecurity has been a topic of conversation among Utah lawmakers for some time now, especially following a data breach that impacted all current and former Granite School District students — about ...

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, ...

While rating the IT security as "generally effective," an audit of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Region IV office found several lapses that could leave sensitive data exposed. An independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Maryland at College Park has taken significant steps to reduce the likelihood of data breaches like the one that exposed the Social Security numbers and other identity records of ...