Enterprise Network Security Blog from ISDecisions
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 party software to enhance security and ease regulatory compliance. Although Windows Active Directory includes native policies … Continued
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…
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…
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 protect the company from cyber-crime can often be viewed as an extra cost to the … Continued
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 not a surprise when you learn the education sector has the highest rate of ransomware … Continued
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 –…
Why is the Education Sector a Target for Cyberattack?
Year over year, the same industry verticals seem to remain at the top of just about every analyst briefing, industry report, and infographic that are about security, threats, and attacks. Commonly, you repeatedly see Retail, Finance, Healthcare, and Education. But why?…
Active Directory User Login History – Audit all Successful and Failed Logon Attempts
The ability to collect, manage and analyze logs of login events has always been a good source of troubleshooting and diagnostic information. Logons are the one common activity across nearly all attack patterns. They provide one of the clearest indicators of compromise to help protect company data and thwart attacks. The need to provide a … Continued
UK politician password-sharing — maybe the security industry has been giving out the wrong advice?
A few days ago, a news story broke saying that many of the UK’s political leaders have been publicly (and almost proudly) proclaiming their own particularly poor passwords habits on Twitter. MP Nadine Dorries admits she regularly shouts the question “What is my password?” across the office, and after her being criticised on Twitter, MP … Continued
Permissions, Accounts or Logons. Where do you draw the line in Least Privilege?
Captain Picard (from Star Trek: The Next Generation) has been known to produce some pretty memorable quotes. One such quote comes from an episode where the Federation is fighting the Borg, with Captain Picard saying (in reference to where…
What’s Least Privilege Really All About?
As we finish the upcoming whitepaper ‘Least Privilege and the Value of User Logon Management‘, we began thinking about how organizations may see the point of least privilege as being different things. We all know, at a minimum, the implementation…
External Attacks – It’s All About the Logon
It’s tough to come up with an effective counter-measure to external attacks when you can’t see your enemy. While there are plenty of stories in the news of how a certain company fell prey to a very specific attack, it’s…
Are You Just Waiting for a Compromise?
The modern IT organization is well aware that compromises (in the form of both external attacks and insider threats) are more an issue of when than if. You’ve put up some defensive security solutions – AV, endpoint protection, email scanning, etc. – all in an effort to minimize the threat potential. But, beyond that, what … Continued
