While rating the IT security as "generally effective," an audit of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Region IV office found several lapses that could leave sensitive data exposed. An independent ...

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer that helps you keep your computer secure. With the help of this tool, you can scrutinize and probe network packets in real-time. In this post, we will talk ...

How can you confirm your systems are configured appropriately and maintain that configuration over time? In our tests, Preventsys Network Audit and Policy Assurance 1.5 proved to be a flexible, ...

90+% of Cisco Router administrators are CLI jockeys, myself included. However, there are several GUI tools that can help you manage and secure your Cisco routers very quickly. The one I want to focus ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Network Auditing is never an easy task, especially if you’re auditing one that is quite large. Chances are you’re just a regular Joe or Jane. Therefore, a large network audit is probably not on the ...

Make a robust wireless audit of your network with Kismet Security concerns have been an issue from the moment the first wireless networks hit the market. Most administrators are at least a little ...

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.

Very disappointing, some might even say demoralizing, security findings were made public this week in a report from a U.S. Government Accountability Office cybersecurity study regarding the Defense ...