An examination of networks and computer systems by an independent consultant to determine an organization's vulnerability to criminal invasion (crackers, viruses, arson, etc.) and natural disasters (fire, tornados, earthquakes, etc.). See security scan and information security.
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- Jacknife 1.3 (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...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- AuditWizard 8.1 (Windows)
- AuditWizard is a fast, effective and accurate PC auditing software. Discover all your hardware, software and application licenses across your entire organization in minutes. AuditWizard helps you achieve total visibility of what's on your network, from PCs and Servers through to Network Printers and Switches to IT gadgets like PDAs,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations
- In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
- News items 2009-11-11
- USB Lock RP 5.21 (Windows)
- USB LOCK RP network information protector and centralized endpoint control to protect information in network PCs. Block, or allow removable storage use by class in real-time. Authorize Groups of devices by VID, PID,and/or specific devices by hardware ID to operate on specific clients or across the network. Automatically receive alerts,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- EventMeister 3.0.6 (Windows)
- EventMeister is a powerful solution to centrally monitor and analyze Windows Event Logs. It will alert you to security issues and other critical events throughout your network, facilitate central archiving of log data and assist with analysis and meeting audit requirements. As EventMeister is a centralized monitoring solution there is...
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Dongguk University Boosts Administration System Security With Audit Control Solution
- Established in 1906, Dongguk University is a private, coeducational university in Korea, and one of the few Buddhist-affiliated universities worldwide. As part of its drive to be the number one university in Korea based on student and teacher satisfaction, the institution deployed a Web-based academic administration system, called uDRIMS, to...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Monitoring Active Directory for Security and Compliance: Bridging the Gaps in the Native Audit Log
- Much of the security and control of an enterprise IT environment rests on Active Directory. It provides authentication and access control for Windows users and applications, as well as for UNIX, Linux and mainframes. Even VPNs, extranets and internal network security technologies all use Active Directory for policy and identity...
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Tripwire Helps Put This Student Loan Servicing Company at the Head of Its Class
- EdFinancial Services strives to be best in class by streamlining the student loan delivery process across the life of a loan in a completely digital environment. The challenge was to ensure successful deployment of web content changes, to leverage automated controls to minimize audit overhead and increase change management discipline...
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- Neusoft Group Improves System Security With Unified Identity and Access Management Platform
- Neusoft Group wanted to establish a unified identity and access management platform and enable single sign-on to business systems and integrate access to the company's internal and external systems. The challenge was to implement a solution to verify identities and provide a user-access audit trail to boost system security and...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- SMS Monitor Lite for S60 3rd/5th editions (Mobile)
- SMS Monitor Lite is an easy in use tool for remote sms-monitoring for less price. The main purpose of this application is parental controls and security audit. Program sends incoming and outgoing sms from mobile phone where it is installed to your number silently. All messages would be sent in...
- Software downloads 2009-08-31
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