the State of Security

Regulatory Compliance

Using PCI Compliance As a Business Driver

by Cindy Valladares

Here at Tripwire we get many great customer success stories, so I’ve decided to start a series of blog posts that bring those stories to you. This week’s post focuses on a The Logic Group, a large payment processor in the UK. Organization The Logic Group solutions process in excess of three billion credit and [...]

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Is Compliance Dead?

by Adam Montville

Is compliance dead in the water or, as a good friend of mine in the industry enjoys reminding me at every turn, is it really the frog in soon-to-be-boiling water?  Given the recent high profile breaches attributed to Anonymous and LulzSec, it’s easy to say, quite flatly in fact, that compliance simply isn’t cutting it. [...]

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Logging Assurance to Improve Security

by Cindy Valladares

Last week I posted an interview transcript with my colleague Jason Iler on how to prevent the security blindspot. To give us further insight into this security solution, we’ve captured this short video interview. Hasta pronto! @cindyv

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HyperLogging: Preventing the Security Blindspot

by Cindy Valladares

In the security world, there are a LOT of things to keep track of on a daily basis. There is no shortage of legitimate security threats, not to mention all the mundane operational activities that need to be managed:  OS/app patches, rogue access points, physical security, post-it notes with passwords (yes, I’m guilty here too)… [...]

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How to Achieve Better Security

by Cindy Valladares

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Dahn, Director of Risk and Compliance at PwC, and Josh Corman, Research Director of Enterprise Security at The 451 Group. The focus of our conversation was on what practical advice they could give to organizations that wanted to move beyond proving compliance validation to [...]

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PCI DSS Compliance: More Carrot and Less Stick?

by Cindy Valladares

Or a less sexy title: does compliance with mandates such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) help reduce risks for organizations (the carrot) even though it’s costly and the consequences of non-compliance even costlier (the stick)?

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