I need to audit access on a specific folder on a file server. I have enabled "Object access" in the local policy and configured the folder to audit access from my user account "full control" success ...

As an administrator, you have a great many tools at your fingertips. One of the tools you do not want to ignore is Active Directory Auditing. By auditing certain events, you can record which user is ...

The Institute of Internal Auditors has sent a comment letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board taking issue with the PCAOB’s proposal to require mandatory rotation of audit firms for ...

If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a group of 27 other major corporations and business trade associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging the SEC not to finalize the ...

Using Local Security Policy Editor, you can administer security settings on a workstation, and control and monitor the behavior of users on your network. The Audit Object Access policy in LSPE permits ...

In Event Viewer, Audit Success is an event that records an audited security access attempt that is successful, whereas Audit Failure is an event that records an audited security access attempt that ...

Occasionally, I have active directory objects (users, groups) that get moved or deleted. Then management plays a finger-pointing game. We've got it rather restricted who in the admin staff can ...