Are you prepared for a Sarbanes-Oxley audit? Can you provide an audit trail of modifications to your production database environment? Do you have the funds to purchase a third-party auditing tool? If you answered "no" to any of those questions, read on to find out how to create your own database audit trail in SQL Server 2005.

Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around.

When the Sarbanes-Oxley auditors ask for the documentation you keep on the security of your production database environment, what will they find? Read how one DBA uses new data manipulation and data definition tools built into SQL Server 2005 to document system security.

I certainly don’t want to be the kind of person to say “I told you so.”  Oh, wait, yes, I DO want to say that because it’s TRUE.  Just days after I asked whether Microsoft was in big trouble the stock market discovered the same basic problems and cut the value of the company by ...

In response to a previous article (Geeks and Communications Skills), commenter Tony Hopkinson wrote: “Now maybe I’m not business aware enough to realise why short term gains are preferable to long term success, may be one of these business types should explain it, then we can all row the boat in the same direction.” DirtClod ...

Determining the total cost of ownership/operation and return on investment for open source systems can be an elusive proposition. See what factors--both concrete and abstract--you need to take into account.

If you're a Windows 2000 Server admin running into the same problems over and over again from the same handful of users, an audit may help you identify and solve those problems once and for all. Here's some straight talk about audits from Jim Boyce.

Follow these 10 steps as a foundation for locking down IIS.

If you've recently added policies and software systems specifically for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, you will also need to revamp your disaster recovery planning. Make sure you know the SOX basics.

I just finished my second, and final, presentation for the ODTUG Desktop Conference 2006: Implement Security and Audit in Oracle 10g . Well, I have to say I think yesterday went better than today. I asked for open audio to… This post originally appeared on an external website

You've gone to the effort of creating policies in your organization and implementing them. How do you know that they're being enforced and used? That's where a policy audit comes in. Tom Mochal shows you how it works.

How secure is your network? Are users or hackers trying to access data that they shouldn't? Do you even know? You stand a better chance of finding out by using an audit policy on your server. Here's how it works.

Filesystem integrity auditing is an important part of any system administrator's security program.

Unless you are a mindless worker bee, you’re constantly thinking about how you can contribute to the success of your IT business or organization. How can you help the membership base grow? What steps can you take that will increase revenue? Well, when I read this News.com story today, I was reminded that the popularity of ...

Two critical security considerations that are closely related to one another are ignored all too often: integrity auditing and recovery. This document is an overview of good security integrity auditing and recovery practices using a Linux operating system.