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 ...

Security is about alleviating risks. Proper security audits help organizations spot weak points in their systems, processes and controls that hackers could potentially exploit or that insider threats ...

A security audit is an independent review and assessment of an organization’s security protocols, processes and systems. An outside party conducts the audit and typically includes a detailed review of ...

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, ...

For advanced users, OpenSCAP offers a plethora of customization options and integrations. Tailor OpenSCAP policies and profiles to align with industry-specific regulations and compliance requirements.

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 ...

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, ...

Network Auditing is never an easy task, especially if you’re auditing one that is quite large. Chances are you’re just a regular Joe or Jane. Therefore, a large network audit is probably not on the ...

Data security, once the realm of the IT department, has catapulted into a headline-grabbing topic in 2018, especially in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in April.

Multiprotocol Label switching (MPLS), proposed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is a new data exchange standard for efficient transmission of data guided by labels on open communication ...