System Hardening & Data Protection
With the current update, several new features have been added to AuditTAP. One of the new features is particularly important for companies.
Continue reading “Risk assessment, new hardening configurations and more: AuditTAP 5.2 is here!”
Have you engaged a service provider? Does it really comply with regulatory requirements, for example in the area of IT security? Use this tool to check the quality of your service provider.
A new tool from the German Federal Office for Information Security can be used to check how much telemetry information an unsecured Windows 10 or Windows 11 sends to Microsoft. We tried it out and came up with some astonishing results.
Continue reading “How much telemetry data do Windows 10 and Windows 11 really spy on?”
Bug fixes and fresh features: AuditTAP 5.1 has a few small but nice changes up its sleeve.
Continue reading “AuditTAP 5.1: What does the new version offer?”
We are often asked why we do not perform system hardening based on group policies or group policy objects. The quick answer: Because the handling is inefficient and the results are unsatisfactory! We explain why in this article.
Continue reading “Group Policy vs. System Hardening: Why GPOs don’t provide sustainable security”
And again there is a certificate for Enforce Administrator: Our security configuration management solution for hardening IT systems passed an important security test again.
Continue reading “Enforce Administrator has passed another penetration test with flying colors!”
Effective monitoring, system hardening and more: Security Configuration Management makes it possible to create “secure environments”. These points should be considered and implemented.
Continue reading “Security Configuration Management: This is why it is so important for IT security”
If you deal with IT security or data protection – in short, information security – then you will stumble across DISA, CIS, ACSC and BSI quite quickly. We explain what the organizations and authorities behind these terms do and what they have to do with system hardening in particular.
In which year will the last updates and patches be released for Windows 11? Is there any information about End of Support Dates and End of Lifetime? Important questions, which we clarify here.
Continue reading “When does support for Windows 11 end? What should be considered until then?”
Nobody is perfect – especially no operating system! Therefore, system hardening for Linux is also recommended. However, the implementation can be complex in corporate environments. This is what you should consider.
Continue reading “Linux hardening: How does it work for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & Co.”
