Enterprise Network Security Blog from IS Decisions
Secure Active Directory Users’ Accounts
Users are most of the time the weakest link in your organization. But you need to stop blaming them. It’s your job to secure the organization from unwanted access. You need to protect them from their own careless behavior and mitigate against any malicious activity. In order to do that, you need to make sure … Continued
Why do you need Multifactor Authentication?
Without Multifactor Authentication, organizations are wide open to attack when their employees fall for phishing scams or share passwords. What’s holding them back? Stolen credentials are one of the biggest threats to businesses today. The reason behind that is simple,…
MFA for Windows Login to Address the Vulnerabilities of Corporate Passwords
Easy for both administrators and employees, UserLock now offers multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Windows login alongside contextual controls, for the best balance of security, usability and cost available today. IS Decisions, a provider of access management software, today announced a…
How to Avoid Data Breaches on Windows Infrastructure
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 infection,…
Windows Group Policy for Login Security
The use of Windows Group Policy is often the tool of choice for the strict administration of Active Directory (AD) user accounts. But for logon and access policies, Group Policies can be tedious to configure, particularly so for small and…
Find Active Directory Users Logged on in a Domain – and more
To detect where your Active Directory users are logged on in real-time, watch this 2-minute overview of UserLock. It will also show you how to react and respond to any login, direct from the UserLock console, and how to start controlling and restricting how your users can connect. Video Transcription: Real-Time Visibility for all AD … Continued
Why SMBs believe their data is unsafe in the cloud
Two thirds (61%) of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) believe that their data is unsafe in the cloud, with almost a third (29%) saying that they have suffered a breach since moving to the cloud for storage. Our new report, “Under a cloud of suspicion,” draws on research conducted with 300 heads of security within … Continued
School Network Management. You’ve got your work cut out!
If you’re responsible for school network management at a school, college or university, I don’t envy you. You have a tough job. Not only do you need to keep out the usual external threats like viruses, trojan horses, hackers…
On-Premises & Cloud Storage. Audit & Respond to your Hybrid File Environment.
With the new launch of FileAudit 6, IT professionals can now get insights into the access to and usage of data stored across both cloud and on-premises environments. Furthermore, FileAudit can now automatically respond and take action when an alert…
Windows File System Auditing. Video Tutorials for FileAudit
The IS Decisions team have made a new series of video tutorials on FileAudit – the file system auditing software. The Video Tutorials are designed to further complement existing resources that include support, documentation and a help section that includes…
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…
Stronger Access Control Management
If your Windows network has data that could be of any value to someone without proper authorization to access it, then your organization needs stronger access control. The demand for secure access poses a serious challenge to IT professionals. IT have to balance network security with the need from users for quick and easy access … Continued
Monitor File Changes on Windows Servers
Monitoring file changes is one of the simplest tasks in keeping sensitive data safe but also one of the most neglected areas in many environments. Who accessed a particular file share, and what changes happened? If you’re not able to answer this question quickly, you’re not alone. FileAudit addresses this weakness with an easy-to-use reporting … Continued
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…
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 of IT leaders in higher education, information security remains the #1 issue in 2018 for the third … Continued
