Enterprise Network Security Blog from ISDecisions
Who Last Accessed, or Attempted to Access your Shared Folders
As an important security and compliance measure, watch how you can easily identify activity on your most sensitive shared files and folders. FileAudit not only gives you optimal visibility into what is happening to your organization’s data but the opportunity to react quickly to events. Video Transcription: In this video, I’m going to show you … Continued
Force Remote Logoff after Idle Time
With UserLock, watch how IT administrators can easily set an automatic forced logoff, on all locked or open machines, after a certain idle time. This can include remote desktop sessions opened by the domain user. Resolving Optimization and…
Managing Call Center Access to a Windows Network
The importance of getting access management right cannot be overstated. You need to make sure that anybody accessing your systems – and the data within – is exactly who they say they are. This is especially important when dealing…
FileAudit reviewed and recognized as a leading cyber security software
IS Decisions has much to celebrate after our proactive auditing and monitoring software, FileAudit, won two awards under the top cyber security software of the FinancesOnline software review platform. FinancesOnline, a platform for business software reviews, conferred FileAudit with the 2018 Rising Star and 2018 Great User Experience awards in recognition of its highly positive … Continued
Beyond Group Policy to Control Active Directory Accounts
With the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) now in full force, businesses must protect confidential data from unauthorized access. Strict administration of Active Directory (AD) user accounts is essential and although Group Policy is the tool of choice, processes such as logon and access policies can be tedious to configure and particularly so for SMBs … Continued
Windows File Server Auditing with FileAudit
With the limited usefulness of native Windows Tools, FileAudit is a software solution that greatly enhances file and folder access auditing across Windows file servers. Windows File Server Auditing Software When native Windows tools don’t cut it, admins turn to third…
Network security in Universities, Colleges and Schools.
IT teams responsible for network security in Universities, Colleges and Schools are experiencing more and more pressure to secure their networks from both external and insider threats. According to the CSO,13% of data breaches last year happened at educational institutions. According to EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association…
Nine Steps to better File Auditing
File auditing helps organizations secure their most sensitive data and simplifies adherence to compliance standards. When successful file auditing is in place it can help both identify a data breach as well as to potentially stop a breach. Attackers are…
Insider Threat Best Practice – without the need for an SIEM solution
With so much news focusing on external attacks, one of the greatest threats to your organization’s data security, revenue, and reputation is insider threats. Insiders – employees with access to data that is externally valuable – are responsible for 28%…
How Strong is Your SMB Security Strategy?
SMBs today are under attack from malware, ransomware, external threats and data breaches. But, with the lack of sophistication around most SMBs security stances, the prospect of remaining unaffected by attacks is bleak. So, SMB’s and MSPs servicing them need a security strategy with maximum impact, but with a minimal investment in time and budget. … Continued
New distribution agreement for the Netherlands
Dutch organizations set to benefit from enhanced file auditing to protect against data breaches. Global cybersecurity vendor IS Decisions today announces an exclusive distribution agreement with NVB ICT DIENSTEN, an ICT specialist, to deliver its security solution FileAudit across the Netherlands. FileAudit is a comprehensive file monitoring tool that enables organizations to proactively track, audit … Continued
What lessons can companies learn from getting breached?
In a sense, getting stung can be the key to taking notice — and maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. IT security is a topic often seen as solely the IT department’s concern. For management, the means taken to…
Cybersecurity advice for Higher Education
Information security continues to challenge both large and small institutions alike. According to EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association of IT leaders in higher education, information security remains the #1 issue in 2018 for the third year in a row. Perhaps this is…
Taking a Proactive Approach to Avoid Data Breaches
It seems like IT’s general approach to any kind of attack – which includes data breaches – is a reactive one. Think about it, in every kind of attack-related scenario – whether an external attack, an insider threat, malware…
How are Data Breaches Detected
Sometimes the challenge with data breaches is to know they ever happened at all. Take these examples from the 2017 headlines: Company Breach Discovered Breach Occurred Verifone January 2017 mid-2016 Brooks Brothers May 2017 April 2016 – March 2017 California…
Does Meeting Compliance Include File Servers?
Those of you reading this are likely working in industries with compliance mandates around protecting specific data types from misuse. And, like most businesses today, you’re probably using some kind of industry-specific set of applications that host that data – a health information management system in a healthcare setting, for example. So, your compliance focus … Continued
