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Biggest Problem in Computer Security

What’s the biggest problem in computer security, according to valsmith at carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com? Well, it’s… Staffing. As the author admits, the post leans toward self-promotion of the...

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PSPad: Great Text File Audit Tool

PSPad is a great text editor and search tool, so by default, it’s a great audit tool, and it’s free. It can also handle a million lines of text–literally. Are you interested yet? It is also a great...

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New IT Auditor Needs Help!

A new IT auditor needs some help dealing with database patching issues and how far you need to dive into technology during an IT audit. Take a moment to read his comment and add your thoughts. I’ve put...

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Compare Multiple Fields with Excel vlookup (Easy)

When you need to determine whether several fields in 2 Excel documents (or tabs) match, all you need to do is combine the fields in each document into one value and then compare the 2 values using...

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IT Admin vs. IT Auditor

IT admins and IT auditors often don’t see eye-to-eye, and they don’t usually think their goals are similar. The IT auditor just has to work a little harder to convince the IT admin of that. I’ve worn...

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CISA vs. CIA Certification

If you’re an IT auditor (or want to be one) and don’t have any audit certifications, which certification should you get, the CISA or the CIA? If you want to get both, which one do you get first? Full...

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How to Audit User Access

When checking system access, make sure you look at all the different items that affect the user’s access. For example, the user might need one or more of the following: Application ID Application role...

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FREE CISA Glossary

ISACA has a free glossary of IT, audit, and security terms that is not only helpful in studying for the CISA exam, but is a good reference guide for new and experienced auditors. The glossary is 38...

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How to be an Irritating Auditor

If you need to read about how to be an irritating auditor, you obviously haven’t been auditing very long. According to most auditees, that quality comes with the territory, right? I hope not! Anyway,...

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Master List of CISA Articles

To make these posts easier to find (and link to), here’s a list of all the CISA-related posts on this blog, in alphabetical order. I’ll add other CISA posts as they are written. Alphabetical Order CISA...

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Why CISSP?

This post answers these questions: Why get the CISSP certification? What has it done for me? What else do I need to know? Charles, one of my readers, asked me, “Do you have postings related to CISSP?”...

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Ask a Question

This post is the parking lot for questions that don’t necessarily relate to one of my posts. If you want to ask a question, post it here. I will try to respond, but keeping up with the blog  keeps me …...

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FREE Infosec & Web Pentesting Education

Security Monkey posted that PentesterLab has some great resources that provide training on pentesting, like: Basics of Web Basics of HTTP Detection of common web vulnerabilities: Basics of...

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Free CISA Prep: Self-Assessment Exam

If you’re planning to take the CISA exam, you need to take ISACA‘s own CISA Self-Assessment exam (get it here). The exam consists of 50 questions that allow exam candidates to “assess their knowledge...

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How to Ping a Server

If you’re an IT auditor or security analyst and you don’t know how to ping a server, then I have some words for you: LEARN HOW! So let’s do it. I’m assuming most of my readers already know how to …...

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Auditing is a Noble Profession

While commenting on AuditMonkey’s blog, I noted that because companies often don’t do the right thing, auditing is a noble profession. Mainly because we can right some of those wrongs. Then I said…...

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How to Perform Population Validation

Do you perform appropriate population validation of the data you rely on in an audit? Population validation is simply gaining confidence that the data you are using in your audit contains all the...

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FREE Global Security Resource Guide

ISC2.org, the organization that grants the CISSP certification, has a great, online, FREE global security resource guide. No membership, certification, or log-in required! At this website, you can...

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ACL Error: Cannot Export to Excel

Next time you get the cannot perform export to Excel error in ACL, try one of the 3 solutions described below.  The full text of the error is:  Cannot perform the export. You can export fields with...

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5 Things I Hate About ACL

I have 5 things I really hate about ACL.  No, these aren’t critical issues, but I deal with them constantly, and they waste my time. All of them deal with the user interface. 1) To close a tab, you...

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