Your management says it wants more analytics, but does it really support analytics? Here’s 10+ signs that indicate that your mgmt:
Filed under Audit, Data Analytics, How to..., Technology, Top 10, Written by Skyyler
We all know that LinkedIn was hacked and lost at least 6.5 million hashed passwords, or at least that’s how many were was posted. Besides changing passwords, is anyone thinking about their LinkedIn lock-down/security settings? What about other social media? See further below instructions for locking down LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
If you haven’t determined how server virtualization changes your audit plans, you better get moving. I’m not just talking about a virtualization audit (more on that later), but the audits that you typically do every year or on a multi-year cycle.
For example, if every year you do an audit on all networks, servers, applications, and databases that host your key financial reporting or PHI systems, you’re looking at policies and procedures, configuration management, security (including patching), user access, logging, and so on. But do you first consider whether those assets run on virtualized servers?
Filed under Audit, How to..., Security, Technology
In Case File: Audit Server Disappeared, I noted that a friend of mine learned that IT had, on its own prerogative, wiped a server belonging to Internal Audit because “it never appeared to be used.”
Some of you already commented on some of the issues involved in this incident and the normal IT activities that should have prevented this incident (or at least alerted IT that something was wrong). Let’s review those comments and I’ll add some other details and comments.
Filed under Audit, Case Files
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According to i365 (formerly EVault), the ebook describes how to:
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