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How to Avoid the High Cost of Security Audits

Over the past decade a large number of network security and financial accounting fraud incidents have occurred, resulting in greatly increased federal and local regulation of many aspects of business computing. This white paper discusses the requirements of these security standards and demonstrates how these requirements can be fulfilled with...

Tags: Security Audit, Security Standard, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance

White papers 2009-04-01

Windows Security Analyzer 1.8.0.230 (Windows)

This tool runs over 100 tests to gauge server security against best practices. Some tests include explanations and background information. It also calculates entropy and NIST Special Publication 800-63 compliance. The Windows Configuration Security Analyzer comes with a DOS batch script that system administrators can run on their servers to...

Tags: System Administrator, Security, Windows Security, Security Audit, Server, Tool, Chris Nowell Information Security, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-02-12

The importance of Ratproxy

In a way it's a server-side anti-viral, aimed at catching injections of malware as they happen. Thus any Web host which wants to be honest and fight the bad guys can, proactively and in the background. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Web, Enterprise Security, Security Audit, Ratproxy, Caturday, Web Hosting, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Chris Nowell Unix Security Analyzer 2 (Windows)

This tool tests Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux against best practices. Some tests include explanations and background information. The Windows Configuration Security Analyzer comes with a shell script that system administrators can run on their servers to gather data for the Analyzer. Unlike other tools, the script is easy to...

Tags: System Administrator, Security Audit, Tool, Chris Nowell Information Security, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-11-22

HackBar 1.1.1 (Windows)

Hackbar is a simple security audit / penetration test tool. This toolbar will help you in testing SQL injections, XSS holes, and site security. It is not a tool for executing standard exploits and it will not teach you how to hack a site. Its main purpose is to help...

Tags: Security Audit, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, IZI Services, Hackbar, Security

Software downloads 2007-09-26

Dark Reading Article: "Eight Sure-Fire Ways to Beat a Security Audit"

Experts share tips on how to avoid the most common pitfalls in an audit. Learn from those who went before you, and you may just ace your next security audit.

Tags: Security, Security Audit, IBM Corp.

White papers 2007-07-09

Using WinReporter to Perform Security Audits on Windows Networks

WinReporter is the perfect tool to provide network administrators with an accurate picture of their infrastructure. WinReporter offers a set of 50 predefined reports that will help the network administrator in his audit and monitoring tasks: hardware upgrades, software updates and licensing, security checks, etc. WinReporter goes further and lets...

Tags: Network, Security Audit, Microsoft Windows, Network Administrator, IS Decisions, WinReporter, Network Administration, Networking, Security

White papers 2007-01-04

Adaptive Intrusion Detection Based on Machine Learning: Feature Extraction, Classifier Construction and Sequential Pattern Prediction

In recent years, intrusion detection has emerged as an important technique for network security. Due to the large volumes of security audit data as well as complex and dynamic properties of intrusion behaviors, to optimize the performance of Intrusion Detection Systems IDSs becomes an important open problem. In this paper,...

Tags: Security Audit, Extraction, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2006-01-01

Are you ready for your Next Security Audit?

Today, security audits are a fact of life for IT departments. Preparation is the key to successfully passing a security audit. In this whitepaper: Managing Security Audits, you'll read how to prepare for an audit, how to focus on your strengths and know your weaknesses, what to do after...

Tags: Security, Security Audit

White papers 2004-11-01

How Innovative Day-to-Day Technology Operations Will Improve Your PCI Ranking

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard prescribes a 12-step program with explicit requirements to protect cardholder information. It also includes security audit procedures that must be validated by a PCI authorized third-party assessor. The PCI-DSS requirements apply to PCI acquirers, merchants, and service providers' inability to prove compliance can...

Tags: Security, Security Audit, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, PCI, Storage, Hardware

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Jacknife 1.2.6 (Mac)

Jacknife is versatile enterprise software for businesses and organizations. It includes several specific types of programs and you may choose which to use simply by selecting a program type in settings. Jacknife Studio is ideal for studios of all kinds, including dance, gymnastics, and karate studios. It...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Roster, Health Care, Jacknife, Jacknife Studio, Jacknife Medical, Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Document Management, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Jacknife 1.2.2 (Windows)

Jacknife is versatile enterprise software for businesses and organizations. It includes several specific types of programs and you may choose which to use simply by selecting a program type in settings. Jacknife Studio is ideal for studios of all kinds, including dance, gymnastics, and karate studios. It includes classes, registrations,...

Tags: Roster, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, Jacknife, Jacknife Studio, Jacknife Medical, Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Document Management, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Reduce the Cost to Achieving HIPAA Security Compliance with Lumension® Solutions

Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule.

Tags: Compliance, Lumension Security Inc., Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2009-10-12

L0phtCrack 6.0.7 (Windows)

L0phtCrack is back. It's time to audit your passwords. L0phtCrack 6 is the award-winning password audit and recovery tool for Windows and Unix passwords. Security experts from industry, government, and academia agree that weak passwords represent one of the ten most critical internet security threats, and are receiving more attention...

Tags: Password, Microsoft Windows, L0phtCrack, L0phtCrack 6

Software downloads 2009-10-05

IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability

IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user. Google Apps Premier runs $50 per user a year. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-02

DocCare 2.07 (Windows)

1. Intelligent Categorization * By physical enterprise structure. * By business entities (e.g. projects) * Automatically collecting valuable emails and manage them as documents. 2. Easy Document Access * Browse by department view. * Browse by business projects or events. * Locate documents by searching keywords. * Recently visited documents....

Tags: Portlet, Document, Dashboard, Microsoft Windows, Full-text Search, Burgeonsoft, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-09-03

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Event Log Manager 2.0.66 (Windows)

Event log data is a critical source of information for security audit, compliance, and troubleshooting purposes. Major compliance regulations require event log audit data to be archived for up to 7 years. NetWrix Event Log Archiver is a free event log management tool with audit log consolidation and archival features....

Tags: Audit, Event, Compliance, Microsoft Windows, NetWrix Event Log Archiver, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-09-01