System Hardening & Secure Configuration
Don’t make it too easy for the “cyber gangsters”! Secure programs such as Chrome, Edge and Firefox properly with Browser Hardening. Here’s what you need to bear in mind.
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How can high requirements of a information security certification be met? Especially when preventive measures like System Hardening are a must have. This is how ESRB mastered that with our powerful hardening tool.
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IT forensics and System Hardening are only seemingly two completely different areas of information security. In practice, many important overlaps become apparent.
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On Github you can now find the latest version of the Audit Test Automation Package, AuditTAP for short. These improvements are included.
Exploits like “DefenderSwitch” and “DefenderStop” can disable Windows Defender. Do they also succeed in doing so on a hardened system? We have tested it.
Continue reading “Malware vs. system hardening: How risky is “DefenderSwitch” or “DefenderStop”?”
Since version 5.2, AuditTAP offers a practical Risk Score. This can cause astonished faces under certain circumstances. We explain how to read and interpret the improved and clear compliance report correctly.
With the current update, several new features have been added to AuditTAP. One of the new features is particularly important for companies.
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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.
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Bug fixes and fresh features: AuditTAP 5.1 has a few small but nice changes up its sleeve.
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