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Most people think of home monitoring systems as cash-guzzling, high-maintenance, real complicated security system that requires professional technicians to install. This isn’t actually false, but this isn’t actually true, either. The escalating crime index has led to more consciousness and awareness on the part of the citizenry about security and crime prevention strategies. Along this line, many products that provide active security measures to individuals and their homes have been made available off-the-shelf. And while this products or gadgets may be easy and economical to install, it is quite another matter to have a home monitoring system in place. The prevailing concept on this matter is to engage home monitoring services offered by companies that distribute home security devices.

Distributors and companies usually offer free installation of home security devices if you avail of their home monitoring services for a specific duration of time. Home monitoring services normally involves calling you or your place should an alarm sound on a security device being breached. This type of home monitoring service started soon after police forces signaled intention to stop responding to home alarms after most of them turned out to be false alarms. The compromise offered by companies was to establish enhanced confirmation which would later be known as home monitoring services so that leads for supposed break-ins forwarded to police stations for action are confirmed positive.  Read more... (440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Do you want to be secure and keep an eye on your childrens, your house, your employers, no matter where you actually are? Gsminfo Spyphone is a security application for your Symbian, iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or Android handset which will turn it into a complete surveillance kit.

As soon as installed, the spyphone software will become completely invisible, turning any ordinary mobile phone into a spy cellphone, allowing you to secretely listen to its conversations, wherever you are, directly from your mobile! You can record calls too, downloading audio files directly from your email.

The spyphone will alert you every time the phone is used to make calls, to receive calls, to send emails or to send SMS. Besides receiving copies of any SMS sent or received, spyphone software will lists all numbers called, or the spy phone’s geographical coordinates, latitude and longitude, offering you its exact location.

After installation you can control every aspect of command operation by sending undetectable SMS commands using our free remote control software.  Read more... (410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Nsauditor Network Security Auditor significantly reduces the total cost of network management in enterprise environments by enabling IT personnel to audit and monitor remote network computers for possible vulnerabilities. The software checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it. Nsauditor includes firewall system that allows to stop internet threats and block unwanted network connections. Nsauditor is a complete utilities package that includes more than 45 network tools and gives you the possibility to get information about operating systems, service packs, hotfixes, installed software and running processes on remote PCs.

Nsauditor “Network Monitoring” module shows you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the owning process name, remote address and state of TCP connections, country of origin and service name/description. When you start Nsauditor it will enumerate all active TCP and UDP endpoints, resolving all IP addresses to their domain name versions. You can close established TCP/IP connections by right-clicking on a connection and/or request IP address whois information or trace route, block unwanted network connections using Nsauditor firewall system.

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Apr 11, 2007 (Nsasoft) — Nsasoft today announced the release of a new version of its popular network security scanner, Nsauditor Network Security Auditor 1.5.5. It is a Windows based multi-purpose tool designed to scan networks and hosts for vulnerabilities, and to provide security alerts. Nsauditor is a complete utilities package that includes more than 45 network tools and gives you the possibility to get information about operating systems, service packs, hotfixes, installed software and running processes on remote PCs. The tools are wide-ranging, from a basic portscanner to more complex SQL and web server scanners, and a set of related utilities and reporting options. Nsauditor is an excellent solution for auditing all types of computer assets in the corporate networks.

Nsauditor significantly reduces the total cost of network management in enterprise environments by enabling IT personnel to scan and monitor network for possible vulnerabilities. The software checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it. With Nsauditor Network Security Auditor, Systems Administrators are able to gather a wide range of information from all the computers in the network without installing server-side applications on these computers and create a report of potential problems that were found.  Read more... (412 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

How do CFOs sleep at night not knowing whether their chart of accounts, asset information, cash and budget information are safe from external attack? Intrusion prevention is a necessary concern for businesses, with databases being vulnerable to cyber attack. Databases are strategic management systems that serve up data, including applications and reports that business entities consume in order to make decisions, to multiple sources. Database security in a holistic network security view has long been overlooked in view of the array of network security software that exists from network scanning, intrusion detection, firewalls, identity management and spam filters (to name a few). However, database monitoring software presents a real opportunity to harden the security around a database when compared to classic approaches that focus on internal database security (which remains important, but does not represent the complete view of the database in the network security environment). The first aspect of database hardening relies on discovery, which implies that a central security authority is alerted at the creation of all databases on a network and kept informed about their current status. Since databases contain sensitive company information, databases that represent a security risk to the company should be shut down to eliminate any potential exposure. Other aspects of database hardening include login and patching management. Centralized database monitoring tools can log user access and identify logins that are repetitive and then create a cycle of password changes. Such security features increase the hardening of a database by ensuring password management is effective for all aspects of database usage. Auditing and database policies can also assist hardening by discovering current or latent patching of databases and alerting a database security person (proactively) that patches are missing, again ensuring that the hardened state of the database is kept at an appropriate level at all times. A real boon of database monitoring and beneficial effect for database hardening is the seamless integration such network security software packages have with intrusion prevention and a stateful firewall. These tools integrate the features of reporting and coordinating network security prevention at the DMZ all the way to the internal company database and allow for the accurate and timely elimination of any threat. A stateful firewall is something that should be considered for any business’s protection.  Read more... (384 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)