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Windows Active Directory Auditing with ADAudit Plus.

Audit-Track-Monitor your Windows Active Directory & Windows Servers Data from Everywhere! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could foresee disastrous events and prevent them from happening? And wouldn’t it be nice to rewind and replay the events to discover the culprits when disasters do strike? Sure it would! That’s why the ADAudit Plus team promises you thorough insight into every ‘Windows Server Environment’ event scenario

5 Top Targets for Today’s Hackers

Black Hat USA  bills itself as “the show that sets the benchmark for all other security conferences.” While most conferences tend to over-promote themselves, given the activity at this year’s show, that actually might be something of an understatement. From the defense of government surveillance delivered by NSA Director  General Keith Alexander  to briefings on the coming “cryptopocalypse” and the risks associated with embedded devices and the Internet of Things, Black Hat reminds us that a little bit of paranoia is warranted in today’s connected world.

Your Net Worth Is Online – And Less Safe Than Ever

The Black Hat USA 2013 conference, which kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, brings together the  brightest minds in IT security  each year — those who are responsible for perpetrating and protecting against the latest hacks and vulnerabilities. And not a second too soon, since every week seems to usher in another security catastrophe. This week’s shocker  was the outing of a hole in mobile device SIM cards, by Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin

HIPAA Omnibus Rule: New Penalty system with steeper fines

The passage of HIPAA Omnibus Rule heralds a new era of accountability for organizations that fall under the category of ‘business associates’ to a healthcare provider. The new rule has made some sweeping changes to the penalty system applied to each HIPAA violation category.

HIPAA Omnibus Rule: Should your organization’s IT department fret over it? — Part II

In the first part of this 2-part blog , we saw the update about the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the deadline for compliance (September 23rd). Now, let’s analyze the before & after of this new rule, and if it really applies to you. (Check out the examples given for better understanding.) The Scene Before HIPAA Omnibus… Before this law was enacted, it was the responsibility of healthcare providers (hospitals, clearinghouses, insurance companies, etc.) to report to HHS about any breach into the protected health information (PHI) that they store. And they had to comply with the detailed HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule in order to show that the PHI had been properly safeguarded, and not been exposed or manipulated.

Voices that matter – Identity and Access Management

Lately, the digital identities of users have evolved into playing a significant role in specifying how users interact with computer networks, thus making the IAM programs more and more complex. Identity and Access Management has become one of the most celebrated, and at the same time, dreaded term in IT management. In the present days of cutting-edge technology, IAM has evolved into a branch of science and has been perceived as a very difficult process

Tracking Workstation Logon/Logoff using ADAudit Plus

Before getting into the specifics, I would like to give a small introduction on tracking Logon / Logoff in Active Directory environment, which is a cumbersome process. Auditing the Windows Active Directory environment Logon Auditing With the current Windows architecture it’s difficult to get all logon data at a single point