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Physical Data Security Measures
Organizations are susceptible to a significant physical data security incident or data breach if physical data and media containing...
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Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 31, 2022
- 2 min
Security of Information Assets While Off-Premises
Organizations need to ensure they effectively address the security of information assets that are taken off-site. It may be difficult to...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
Cabling Security Controls
The lack of basic power and telecommunications cabling security controls, along with protective measures, could cause unexpected outages...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
Managing Supporting Utilities
Equipment should be protected from power failures and other disruptions that may be caused by failures in supporting utilities....
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min
Why Equipment Placement and Protection Matters
Organizations should ensure that before equipment (e.g., servers, network infrastructure, information systems) is installed, the location...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Next Significant Security & Compliance Challenge in 2022
In the first work week of the year, I’ve seen several different articles and blog posts about predictions and what to expect from an IT...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
External and Environmental Threat Protection for your Assets
External and environmental threats can cause unexpected damage to information assets, as well as the facilities in which they reside....
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Importance of Physical Entry Controls
If organizations are not able to account for individuals in their buildings or offices at any given time, it will likely result in an...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
Physical Security Perimeters to Protect Your Facilities
A lack of physical security perimeter controls may compromise many of the controls necessary to maintain a complete Security Program....
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
MDM Security: Security Frameworks for Employee Devices
Do you have security protection for mobile computing and working from home? Although sometimes absolutely necessary (e.g., during a...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
Segregation of Control Duties
Organizations need to have definitions in place to support the segregation of control duties amongst internal personnel. Without these...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
Managing Wireless Access
Organizations that allow wireless access for computer communications or networking need to focus on how best to protect wireless...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Secure Logon with Session Timeouts and Time-of-Day Limitations
The risk for unauthorized access or inappropriate viewing of information increases for organizations if session timeouts are not in place...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Remote Access Control Policy Management
A significant number of external security incidents or data breach threats begin with unauthorized remote access being gained to the...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
System Utility Access Control Protection
Organizations need to implement system utility access controls to protect and ensure standard, non-administrative users do not have the...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
It’s Not Rocket Science – Secure Unattended Information Systems
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize that an access control policy need to be implemented to secure information systems when...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Password Policy Example and Common Management Solutions
It’s been said that a password management should be treated like a toothbrush – don’t let anybody else use it and get a new one every six...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Ensuring a Secure Logon Process
Organizations need to implement and maintain secure logon processes to ensure authorized users are authenticated prior to accessing...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Balancing Admin Rights & Control – Privilege Access Management
Organizations need to have controls in place in place for the management of accounts with privileged access. Privileged access management...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Identify AND Authenticate Users – A “Must Have” Combination
Identify AND Authenticate users in order to protect your organizations networks. Actions performed on an organization’s networks,...
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