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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...