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How to Monitor File Changes across Windows Servers

How to Monitor File Changes across Windows Servers

Who accessed a particular file share, and what changes happened? If you’re not able to answer this question quickly, you’re not alone. 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. FileAudit addresses this weakness with an easy-to-use reporting … Continued

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Force Remote Logoff after Idle Time

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 Security Issues Fast and fluid access to shared workstations is key to their utility, but … Continued

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Beyond Group Policy to Control Active Directory Accounts

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

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Windows File Server Auditing with FileAudit

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

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Insider Threat Best Practice – without the need for an SIEM solution

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% of all data breaches. While 28% may not seem as large as the implied 72% … Continued

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What lessons can companies learn from getting breached?

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

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Cybersecurity advice for Higher Education

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

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How are Data Breaches Detected

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 Association of Realtors July 2017 March – May 2017 Forever 21 November 2017 March – … Continued

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Why is the Education Sector a Target for Cyberattack?

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? Retail and Finance make sense – those are businesses involved with moving people’s money (or … Continued

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Active Directory User Login History – Audit all Successful and Failed Logon Attempts

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

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