Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is widely viewed as being beneficial for many areas of business. It can be used to more accurately predict trends and sales to help plan budgets, marketing strategies and much more. However, when it comes to AI and IT security services, there are often more questions than answers. While AI can…
DetailsPrevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions and audit the execution of such functions. Here is where the separation of admin accounts and non-admin accounts helps you with this control. Don’t allow the non-admin accounts to have any access or ability to perform any commands that a privileged account will create. If you follow the…
DetailsHow to tell what OS is on a machine or what a machine is from its IP You scan your network but now what? You don’t know what the devices are on the network and you just have some IP Addresses now. You need to figure out what they are. Your monitoring system or scanner can tell…
DetailsUse non-privileged accounts or roles when accessing nonsecurity functions. The object of this control is to set up an admin-account and a non-admin-account for privileged access and no-privileged access. This control seeks to separate admin accounts from non-admin accounts and what actions are performed by each. The best way to go about this is to…
DetailsSmall business owners have to always be looking for ways to grow most effectively. From staffing to delivering a quality product and even finding the right location, many different variables go into the growth of a company. One important component that can’t be overlooked is your IT security services. Having a proactive IT management strategy…
DetailsOne of the most important aspects of owning a business that often doesn’t have as high of a priority as it should is network monitoring. Small and midsize business owners have many different aspects of their organization to manage, so security and monitoring tend to get pushed to the side. And sometimes the in-house IT…
DetailsEmploy the principle of least privilege, including for specific security functions and privileged accounts. What is the principle of least privilege? It is when you give a person’s account the bare minimum of permissions and capabilities they need to do their job. You basically lock their account down to the point that they can’t access…
DetailsYour POA&M is your Plan of Action and Milestone document. Here are some key strategies and best practices that you need to observe when you are filling out your POA&M document. Through the course of your audit and your security analysis or your compliance audit, information system audit or any other IT-based audits you are…
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