Security News

PCI DSS Compliance Between Audits is Declining: Verizon
2019-11-12 17:14

Companies subject to PCI DSS security requirements are audited once per year, yet many of these companies continue to be breached. It is not that PCI DSS fails, but that companies fail to maintain...

Top concerns for audit executives? Cyber risks and data governance
2019-11-12 05:30

As organizations continue to collect customer and employee data, chief audit executives (CAEs) are increasingly concerned about how to govern and protect it. Gartner conducted interviews and...

Key challenges impacting IT audit pros navigating an evolving risk landscape
2019-10-17 05:30

Protiviti and ISACA surveyed 2,252 chief audit executives (CAEs), internal audit professionals and IT audit vice presidents and directors worldwide. Asked to identify their biggest technology...

Audit Finds Critical Vulnerability in iTerm2 macOS Terminal Emulator
2019-10-09 16:48

A security audit funded by Mozilla has led to the discovery of a critical remote command execution vulnerability in the popular iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator. read more

HITRUST issues guidance for relying on work of internal audit departments  in CSF assessments
2019-09-16 02:15

HITRUST, a leading data protection standards development and certification organization, released updated guidance for placing reliance on the results of previously performed audits, assessments,...

Kubernetes security matures: Inside the project’s first audit
2019-08-12 05:15

Auditing 1.5 million lines of code is a heroic undertaking. With resources provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Kubernetes Project leadership created the Security Audit...

Pentagon Buys Equipment With Known Vulnerabilities: Audit
2019-08-01 15:33

Report Also Highlights Cybersecurity Concerns About Use of Equipment Made in ChinaThe U.S. Department of Defense has purchased IT gear known to have significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities,...

Audit Finds More Security Vulnerabilities at IRS
2019-07-22 10:18

GAO Makes More Security Recommendations; IRS Now Has 127 Issues to ResolveThe Internal Revenue Services' internal financial reporting systems and IT infrastructure have 14 new security...

New Audit Finds More Security Vulnerabilities at IRS
2019-07-19 18:03

GAO Makes More Security Recommendations; IRS Now Has 127 Issues to ResolveThe Internal Revenue Services' internal financial reporting systems and IT infrastructure have 14 new security...

D-Link must suffer indignity of security audits to settle with the Federal Trade Commission
2019-07-03 16:30

No admission of guilt, but plenty of new rules to follow Taiwanese networking equipment vendor D-Link will have to submit to a decade of product security audits after agreeing to settle a lawsuit...