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Home > Security > Auditing An Information Technology (IT) audit or information systems (IS) audit is an examination of the controls within an entity's Information technology infrastructure. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of attestation engagement. Results 1 - 25 of 59 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Automated Penetration Testing: Completing the Vulnerability Management Framework By : Aomega Published Date: Nov 06, 2006 Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity.  By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access. Download Now Extracting Value from Enterprise Log Data By : ArcSight Published Date: Oct 31, 2008 This whitepaper will outline the drivers for log management as well as their underlying challenges and drive towards a common set of requirements for evaluation of log management tools. Download Now Secure Remote Vendor Access to the Enterprise Data Center By : Axeda Corporation Published Date: Sep 05, 2007 Enabling IT equipment vendors to perform remote service on your data centers helps maximize uptime and lower TCO—but at what risk? Dial-up modems and VPNs introduce security vulnerabilities and lack sufficient auditing capabilities—making it virtually impossible to track external access and maintain data center security. Download this white paper to learn how you can manage security risks, lower service-related costs, achieve regulatory and internal compliance, and more. Download Now Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability By : Borland Published Date: Oct 02, 2006 In this white paper, you'll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects. Download Now CA Access Control for Windows By : CA Published Date: Sep 01, 2006 Learn how CA Access Control, a independent security system, complements the native Windows operating system and can enable a strong defense-in-depth security practice for your organization. Download Now UNIX Host Access Management with CA Access Control By : CA Published Date: May 07, 2007 UNIX and Linux systems have inherent security issues that pose high risk to the business objectives of complying with regulations and data protection.  To reduce security risks, you need full superuser containment and the ability to enforce strict access control to critical system resources through centralized and automated policy management across different platforms. Download Now Host Access Management with CA Access Control By : CA Published Date: Sep 13, 2007 Your organization relies on servers to store and access to your most critical information resources. CA Access Control is a product that centralizes control and distributed enforcement of appropriate role-based access to sensitive server resources. Download Now Server Resource Protection: A Critical Element of IT Security By : CA Published Date: Jul 08, 2008 This white paper analyzes common vulnerabilities in protecting server resources and suggests a solution based on Server Access Management and Auditing. Working together, server access management and auditing can improve regulatory compliance and data privacy, provide greater IT accountability, partition access to superuser and root accounts, assign more granular responsibilities to individual IT people, monitor activities, and correlate actions across multiple systems. Download Now CA Siteminder Web Access By : CA Published Date: Jul 15, 2008 CA SiteMinder Web Access Manager provides policy based authentication and authorisation, supports multiple advanced authentication techniques, identity federation, and single sign on for Web applications. Traditionally, access management infrastructure has been developed separately for each Web application, leading to duplication and limited control and audit capability. SiteMinder provides centralised capabilities plus extensive additional facilities. Butler Group is impressed with its fine-grained authorisation capabilities, support for advanced authentication techniques, support for a good range of user directories, identity federation based on established standards, and the scalable architecture. Overall, SiteMinder is an impressive solution for mid-sized and large companies who use numerous Web applications to deliver sensitive or business critical data. Download Now Leveraging Automation to Quickly Reveal Vulnerabilities By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  Find out how Cenzic's powerful security solutions help information security teams quickly identify problems, regularly assess web application security strength and ensure regulatory compliance. Download Now Securing Web Applications: The Time Is Now By : Cenzic Published Date: Jul 01, 2006 Enterprises need to utilize software testing that can automatically review applications for security problems. This document examines the market drivers and technology associated with software security code review products and discusses how Cenzic is addressing this urgent need. Download Now Cenzic: Application Security for Financial Institutions By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle. Download Now Evaluating a Storage Security Solution By : Decru Published Date: Dec 01, 2006 Company data is vulnerable to threats from - insiders, unauthorized access to data, data backup, off-site mirroring - just to name a few. Encrypting data at rest, on tape or disk, significantly mitigates these threats. This document provides guidance into some of the factors a company should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions. Download Now Understanding and Managing Security Audits By : Ecora Software Published Date: Jul 05, 2006 Better preparation means better results – Learn how to prepare for an audit; how to develop a self-audit process; how to develop a security template; and much more. Download Now Practical Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance By : Ecora Software Published Date: Jul 05, 2006 Learn about the Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory background and its impact on IT departments. This document provides information pertaining to access issues, change documentation, disaster recovery planning and illustrations of key audit-ready reports. Download Now EvolveWare’s S2T Technology - Automated Software Analysis, Documentation & Transformation By : Evolveware Published Date: Sep 08, 2006 Software analysis, documentation, migration, upgrades or replacements are daunting and risky endeavors because they are primarily manual and time-consuming. EvolveWare’s S2T Technology provides a solution to these problems with tools that automate the process up to 90%, thus reducing the time and cost of such initiatives by as much as 40-60%. Download Now Howard Schmidt, Former CSO for Microsoft and eBay and Former White House Cyber Security Czar By : Fortify Published Date: Jan 15, 2008 With an extensive background in police, military, government, and industry security, Howard Schmidt explains how to respond to the changing landscape of cyber threats and how business leaders are helping set the standards for application security. He then profiles industry role models who are setting the standard for application security. Download Now How Europe's largest e-commerce business secures its applications By : Fortify Published Date: Sep 15, 2008 Adrian Asher, Chief Security Officer at Betfair, an online UK betting exchange explains how he manages a “culture of security” and protects the Betfair brand in this 20-minute candid interview. Download Now Software Assurance - An Executive Discussion on Securing the Enterprise By : Fortify Published Date: Nov 19, 2008 While investments to secure the enterprise continue to rise, breaches into company systems and data are skyrocketing. These cyber crimes are consistently debilitating organizations operations, reputations and ultimately, viability. Today’s CEOs are demanding aggressive strategies to protect their business. CIOs and CSOs are working together to employ proven Business Software Assurance approaches across the enterprise to stay ahead of constant threats. Download Now A CISO's Guide to Securing Open Source Software By : Fortify Published Date: Aug 15, 2008 For a CISO, open source introduces a new source of risk and unique security challenge: how do you influence developers over whom you have no direct management control? Jennifer Bayuk, former CISO of Bear Stearns, provides insight on best practices for evaluating, deploying and managing open source code. Download Now Dig Your Own Hole - 12 Ways to Go Wrong With Java Security By : Fortify Published Date: Apr 16, 2007 This webinar explores 12 of the most common security traps in Java by examining the causes of security failures in modern Java–based applications. Approaching security with an “outside in” style, we look at vulnerabilities from a developer’s perspective, focusing on the source code. Download Now Using GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner to Secure Your Internal Network By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007 This document shows you how to use GFI LANguard N.S.S. to identify vulnerabilities on your network (excerpt from manual). Download Now How to Perform Network-Wide Security Event Log Management By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007 Download Now The Banking Data Warehouse and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act By : IBM Published Date: Jun 01, 2005 This white paper outlines the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions in addressing the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the SOX regulations. Download Now IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II By : IBM Published Date: Dec 01, 2005 This white paper will outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Basel II Capital Accord.  Download Now   Results 1 - 25 of 59 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Home > Security > Auditing << Start < Previous 1 2 3 Next > End >> More Security Topics Access Control, Anti Spam, Anti Spyware, Anti Virus, Application Security, Auditing, Authentication, Biometrics, Business Continuity, Compliance, DDoS, Disaster Recovery, Email Security, Encryption, Firewalls, Hacker Detection, High Availability, Identity Management, Internet Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, IPSec, Network Security Appliance, Password Management, Patch Management, Phishing, PKI, Policy Based Management, Security Management, Security Policies, Single Sign On, SSL, Secure Instant Messaging, Web Service Security SUBSCRIBE FORM Receive an email alert whenever new research is added into: Auditing Enter your email below: RELATED TOPICS Best Practices 264 Documents Business Management 233 Documents Compliance 313 Documents Enterprise Software 123 Documents Governance 36 Documents HIPAA Compliance 60 Documents High Availability 114 Documents IT Management 369 Documents Project Management 89 Documents Sarbanes Oxley Compliance 78 Documents Security 399 Documents Security Management 225 Documents Software Compliance 36 Documents
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