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Auditing

Free Weekly Reports Covering Security Auditing

IT Business Edge delivers current IT security information to your email box each week. Their team of veteran technology journalists scour the web - literally reviewing hundreds of information sources ...

Document added on Feb. 11, 2011

The Institutional Need for Comprehensive Auditing Strategies

This paper begins with a definition of auditing, as the word “audit” can mean different things to different people, and contrasts the use of auditing in data processing’s early days ...

Document added on Feb. 5, 2011

Security Auditing A Continuous Process

Does your company have internal auditing? Do they think audits are necessary? Are they willing to follow through on an audit, from start to finish? Many think audits are unnecessary ...

Written by: Pam Page and added on Jan. 22, 2011

Conducting a Security Audit: An Introductory Overview

The word "audit" can send shivers down the spine of the most battle-hardened executive. It means that an outside organization is going to conduct a formal written examination of one ...

Document added on Feb. 23, 2011

Network Security Audit (Part II)

In the First part of Network Security we had a brief overview of the areas that are to be considered on accessing a network's security and also we looked into ...

Document added on April 19, 2011

Computer Audit FAQ

Answers Frequently Asked Questions about computer audit (aka systems audit, IT audit etc.). Offers pragmatic guidance to those new to computer audit, including those about to be computer-audited for the ...

Written by: Gary and added on Feb. 28, 2011

An Audit of Active Directory Security, Part 1

Anyone familiar with security architecture of the Windows NT family of operating systems knows that one of the biggest threats to the structure is in the NetBIOS services. Such threats ...

Document added on Jan. 18, 2011

An Audit of Active Directory Security, Part 2

The scope of this particular article is largely around accounting, permission, enumeration, and logging issues. This article does not cover default DNS settings.

Document added on June 21, 2011

An Audit of Active Directory Security, Part 3

This article is the third in a series devoted to discussing security issues surrounding Active Directory, also known as AD. The first article offered a brief overview of Active Directory. ...

Document added on May 12, 2011

An Audit of Active Directory Security, Part 4

I'd like to note that this particular article has been the longest in development in the series so far; the reason being that playing with the Configuration Naming Context (CNC) ...

Document added on July 1, 2011