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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden has issued an executive order that all agencies must adopt a multi-factor authentication (MFA) by mid-November 2021. It has become imperative that cybersecurity is included as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The green checkmark on Windows Defender is often a reassuring sign to most people that their computer is safe. After all, Windows Security is packed with so many security features. However, realizing ...