Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 90-page ebook ...

What if your devices, networks, and cloud services have misconfigured settings? When entrepreneurs invest in their business/startup, but their administrators fail to maintain the security aspects of ...

To say Windows is a huge platform is an understatement. At a high level it seems so large because everything tends to work together in a way that makes sense for both administrators and employees ...

Every organization has devices, networks or cloud services with improperly configured permissions that expose sensitive data or could allow hackers to gain privileged access. Check them now. I’ve ...

[Excerpted from "Building and Maintaining Database Access Control Permissions," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Database permissions can cause headaches ...

The fallout from the SolarWinds supply-chain cyberattack affecting U.S. government agencies and a slew of corporations won’t be fully known for some time, as agencies and businesses work to determine ...

DB2 V10.1 introduced Row and Column Access Control (RCAC) as a new feature for securing data within a DB2 table. Here's a look at the performance of the permissions that control row access. (In ...

Could I pick peoples brains on how they implement NTFS permissions so that for a shared folder, a group can't create random folders or files in the base of that folder, but can read/modify any files ...

There are many advantages to using the NT File System (NTFS) over file systems based on the old-style File Allocation Table (FAT). For example, NTFS can track permissions and provide ownership of ...

Ron loves everything related to technology, design, and Google. He always wants to talk about "the big picture" and what's next for Android, and he's not afraid to get knee-deep in an APK for some ...