Over the past few months, I have received a number of questions that seem to focus on the difference between a security assessment and a security audit. These are two significantly different things.

A mature cybersecurity program cannot be measured only by the presence of policies, tools and reporting structures.

A security audit is an independent review and assessment of an organization’s security protocols, processes and systems. An outside party conducts the audit and typically includes a detailed review of ...

Security is about alleviating risks. Proper security audits help organizations spot weak points in their systems, processes and controls that hackers could potentially exploit or that insider threats ...

As reports of security threats and data breaches rise, clients want added assurance that an organization can be trusted with their confidential information. As businesses strive to align with industry ...

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Data security, once the realm of the IT department, has catapulted into a headline-grabbing topic in 2018, especially in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in April.

Information security audits are on the rise, as organizations look to not only bolster their security postures, but demonstrate their efforts to other parties such as regulators. Audits, which are ...

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BSI recently updated ISO 27006, which provides minimum requirements for auditor competency for bodies that provide audit and certification of information security management systems (ISMS). John ...

Long story short I changed the Default Domain GPO (stupid I know) so that only Administrators had the Manage auditing and security log right under Computer Configuration > Security Settings > Local ...