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How would you like to be able to close the books on a security audit just like you do a financial audit? That's the goal of newcomer Preventsys, a San Diego start-up that is just coming out of beta testing with a network auditing and policy assurance tool designed to help companies get a better handle on security.
Today, of course, a security audit is a largely manual process involving specialists poring over security policies and then spot-checking the network for compliance. Besides being slow and expensive, sampling means the results can be spotty.
While we'll have to wait to see...