As enterprise network infrastructures become geometrically more complex, IT teams require solutions that can provide information into the centralized enterprise management systems (EMS) that so many of today's IT organizations use to monitor their infrastructure. Without the ability to have centralized visibility into potentially service-affecting IT changes, IT organizations are left with multiple consoles and monitoring stations to gather time-sensitive data.

Tripwire configuration audit and control software is easy to integrate into your existing EMS

The main benefit of a configuration audit and control solution is not to minimize or prevent change in production systems, but to effectively monitor and report on it. Tripwire Professional Services can integrate with industry leaders such as BMC Remedy, HP OpenView, CA Service Desk and others to provide the configuration auditing and control capabilities that are required for self-healing IT computing initiatives, allowing them to recognize when change occurs, enabling immediate action when unauthorized change occurs, or verifying that change was both approved and purposeful. While many solutions are available for pre-approving and scheduling requested changes, when it comes to detecting and managing unwanted changes after they occur, there is only one. Tripwire.

Enterprise Management System Integration

EMS solutions are essential to keeping your business running smoothly and to sustaining a competitive edge. However, maintaining disparate network and support systems management solutions isn't easy, especially in view of today's highly complex and continually changing IT environments. Adding further complication is the pressure IT managers are under to reduce costs and expedite service while also maintaining quality service levels.

Tripwire provides a streamlined process to provide more insight into system-affecting changes that occur within your enterprise. Whether Tripwire software is deployed as an alerting mechanism to notify you when a change to critical file has been made, or you use it to close the loop in your configuration/change management process, you'll find that its integration into your EMS simplifies the management of IT changes.

CMDB System Integration

Today's enterprise has numerous systems, thousands of devices, on-site and off-site employees, and internally and externally imposed guidelines for systems and data security. Given these complexities, managing change throughout the datacenter presents a tremendous challenge, one that must be met to reduce security issues, optimize operations, and meet the mandatory requirements specified by external standards. That's why so many organizations are turning to a CMDB to give them oversight of configuration item activity.

Tripwire Enterprise, together with industry leading CMDB providers, enable IT organizations to realize an accelerated and successful adoption of CMDB initiatives by detecting and monitoring changes made to systems and devices. Fragile systems are identified in order to remediate undesirable changes, which can prevent the CMDB from reflecting an accurate and known system state.

Tripwire Enterprise provides details about the change including the "before" and "after" state of the system and who made the change, providing IT personnel the information they need to examine and remediate potential risks.

Tripwire Reconcile Express

Tripwire offers numerous change reconciliation solutions to support a wide range of requirements. Tripwire Reconcile Express is designed to help organizations that want to quickly get started automatically tracking unauthorized change, without the need for custom integration to their existing change approval or ticketing systems. Tripwire Reconcile Express provides the ability to automate the manual process of reconciling all changes, investigate unauthorized changes, and reduce the potential for errors that can disrupt systems.

Providing Increased Visibility Leads to Improved Security

Many customers deploy Tripwire as an integral component of their layered security strategy to provide detailed change information about security events. The Tripwire solution can and should also be integrated into an organization's security event console so the change information can be correlated with other security events to provide complete visibility into system changes across the enterprise.

Please contact Tripwire Sales to assess your needs.