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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.

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4 Key Steps to Automate IT Security Compliance
By : Qualys Published Date: Oct 31, 2008
This paper provides a detailed discussion of the internal and external regulatory challenges now faced by organizations, the scope of these challenges, and 4 key ways in which they can be addressed through better business processes and automation.
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Winning the PCI Compliance Battle: A Guide for Merchants and Member Service Providers
By : Qualys Published Date: Oct 31, 2006
This white paper reviews the basics of PCI, including who must comply, compliance requirements, validation requirements and penalties. It also examines key things to look for when selecting a PCI network testing service and introduces QualysGuard PCI.
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Qualys
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.
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Fortify
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.
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CA
Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jul 11, 2007
In this whitepaper, you will learn how configuration audit and control can be used effectively to ensure system management productivity, and help reduce costs and sustain configuration viability within the bounds of operational, security and regulatory standards.
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Tripwire
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.
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CA
Don't Dread that Network Audit: Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards
By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
Security administrators need to be more proactive about preventing attacks, making vulnerability assessments a crucial tool in their portfolio.
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Qualys
Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.
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Tripwire
Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 28, 2008
Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.
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Tripwire
How One Company Conquered the Audit Challenge
By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. MCCS chose a managed service to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and prioritize patches and fixes.
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Qualys
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.
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CA
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.
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Fortify
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.
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Fortify
Keeping Up Your SOX Compliance and Turning IT into a High Performer by Improving Change Control
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jan 26, 2007
This paper covers the implementation, disclosure and ongoing evaluation of internal controls for SOX compliance with a focus on the role of IT, as well as the penalties for non-compliance.
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Tripwire
Optimizing Infrastructure Control
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 06, 2008
This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security.
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Tripwire
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.
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CA
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.
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Fortify
Sending, Receiving, and Tracking Large Files Securely
By : YouSendIt Published Date: Oct 20, 2008
In this datasheet, discover how it’s now possible to send large files in a way that’s safer and more affordable than FTP, courier services, and email attachments.  Learn how to beat the security challenges that come with global collaboration and data sharing; avoid crippling data transfer problems like partial file delivery or network delays; and know where your file is every step of the way, from sendoff to final destination. Download your copy now.
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YouSendIt
The Total Economic Impact of the Tripwire Enterprise Solution
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jan 10, 2007
Hear from a leading industry analyst how your company can quickly enjoy a substantial return on investment from implementing Tripwire’s configuration audit and control solution.
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Tripwire
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.
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CA
Effectively Delegate Administrative Privileges
By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Aug 27, 2007
Learn how delegating administrative privileges can aid in improving administrative productivity, system availability and security, while satisfying the demands of auditors.  Read this new white paper from NetIQ today.
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NetIQ Corporation
Monitor System Changes And User Activity
By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jul 11, 2007
Learn how to meet regulatory requirements for system change and user activity monitoring with NetIQ Change Guardian for Windows, without the need for performance-hindering native auditing.

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NetIQ Corporation
Privacy, Compliance, and International Data Flows
By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jun 14, 2006
Mandatory compliance requirements often vary or conflict. Discover the major issues and appropriate actions organizations must take today to protect the privacy of information and meet legal and contractual requirements.
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NetIQ Corporation
Pre-Test DR & Business Continuity Plans
By : Shunra Published Date: Mar 18, 2007
Effective IT disaster recovery and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. It is vital to ensure that those services are not disrupted due to any disaster. Pre-test your plans in a simulated network.
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Shunra
10 Reasons your RADIUS Server Needs a Refresh
By : Identity Engines Published Date: Oct 15, 2007
For over a decade now, RADIUS servers have been a mainstay of dial-up and VPN access control. The rather inconspicuous RADIUS server, perhaps better known as that beige, general-purpose PC collecting dust in the corner of your data center, has proved sufficient for performing basic duties like validating passwords and granting network access.
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Identity Engines
 
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