Oracle has recently confirmed the availability of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall, which protects Oracle and non-Oracle databases by monitoring network traffic and analyzing audit data. This ...

The Audit Research Summary (ARS) Database (auditingresearchsummaries.org) contains executive summaries of approximately 700 academic auditing research studies that have been published in leading ...

One of the major drivers behind auditing is compliance. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the U.S. requires that healthcare providers deliver audit trails about anyone and ...

Many seasoned database administrators howl in protest at the mere suggestion of running native auditing functions due to the poor performance and log management headaches that often come with auditing ...

Data security, once the realm of the IT department, has catapulted into a headline-grabbing topic in 2018, especially in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in April.

Internal audit departments are making greater use of innovative technologies such as data visualization, according to a new report. The report, from Deloitte Global, foresees an increase in dynamic ...

Reports of cancer cases were deliberately inflated in a Maryland state database maintained by a private contractor, leading researchers in a cervical cancer study to send letters to women who did not ...

California law enforcement compiles a database of people involved in gang activity that the criteria and maintenance of the database has been the subject of criticism for years. Now an audit of the ...

The University of Baltimore improperly left a database with students’ Social Security numbers unprotected and separately lost $22,600 when a vendor overcharged the institution, an audit found. In its ...