Failing an audit sounds like the last thing any company wants to happen. But that’s because audits are seen by many as the goal of a security program. In reality, audits are only the means of testing ...

When CardSystems Solutions was hacked in 2004 in one of the largest credit card data breaches at the time, it reached for its security auditor’s report. In theory, CardSystems should have been safe.

The California State Auditor has issued a stinging report that faults the California Department of Technology (CDT) for its oversight of state agencies’ information security — the Auditor’s sixth such ...

Before he became a chief technical security officer at Qualys, Josh Hankins was a cybersecurity leader in financial services. He learned how security audit failures are increasingly costly, and he ...

In the report, Murphy's office examined 65 agencies in general, and drilled down into detail for five agencies which collected sensitive information about state residents. The auditor was not ...

Western Australia's Auditor General Colin Murphy late last week delivered a scathing report into the security of state government IT systems, billing it as a "wake-up call" to departments and agencies ...

Two years after the breaches that exposed the data of 22.1 million people, the Office of Personnel Management is still struggling to properly test its information security. A new audit by the agency’s ...

(TNS) — On Christmas Eve last year, Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy's office issued a dire warning that state agency computer systems and data make "attractive targets for cyberattacks." The ...