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Ed Rarick

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I am an evangelist for Tripwire products and the solutions they enable. I have been with tripwire for nearly 7 years. I enjoy helping others understand why the solutions we offer are of value and how they deliver their value. My favorite question is “so what?” because it helps me determine what is of value and what is not.

Ed Rarick has contributed 13 posts to The State of Security.


True FIM—Tripwire FIM: Summary

by Ed Rarick

Summary Tripwire has the only true File Integrity Monitoring solution. All others do little more than just detect changes, whether the changes are good or bad—because they have no way of telling the difference. Tripwire FIM, with its unique ChangeIQ capabilities, provides multiple ways to determine low-risk change from high-risk change, and do so at [...]

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True FIM—Tripwire FIM: Unauthorized vs. Undesired

by Ed Rarick

Good News PCI DSS 11.5 requires merchants to “…alert on unauthorized modification of critical system, content or configuration files…”. That should be good news, right?  Alerting on unauthorized change requires more from a FIM than simply detecting change.  It requires the ability to analyze each detected change to determine if it is expected or unexpected.  [...]

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