Open AccessDigital Auditing: A Technique to Ensure Security
Author(s) -
Nidhi Dandotiya,
Pallavi Khatri,
Abhinandan Singh Dandotiya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research in computer science, engineering and information technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-3307
DOI - 10.32628/cseit206391
Subject(s) - audit , computer security , vulnerability (computing) , information security audit , computer science , security service , information security , software security assurance , business , accounting , network security policy
Security is one of the ever-rising provinces in about every field of society and computers are no freak. The systemon the network can be attacked if it is easy to break its security or it is vulnerable. Security issues that exist in connection to a machine on network are system security and application security. For ensuring security of personal computer regular security audits of the system needs to be done. One main objective of auditing is to ensure that systems are safe or not. Digital auditing can be manual or automated. Systems audit leads to check that the vulnerability of system to different attacks that can be done on it. Similarly, a website running on the system can also be exploited for any vulnerability in it. This work investigates the methods of system and application auditing to identify the weakness at system and application level.