the State of Security

ConfigCheck

Oooops: Accidental Virtualization Security Vulnerabilities?

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos I was recently reading an article called “Only One In Four Data Breaches Are Intentional”. What it lacks in a sexy title it makes up for in interesting content. The results of the report from the Computing Technology Industry Association pose that most security breaches don’t occur due to attack or maliciousness [...]

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Is the ESX Hardening Guideline enough?

by Gavin Millard

I’m just on my way home from presenting at the Future of the Datacenter Conference in London. The event was well attended and a lot of questions from the people I met on the stand before I went on stage were around virtualization and what Tripwire did to help with this “emerging” technology. Everyone saw [...]

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Ok, I’m insecure now what?

by Michael Lohr

In my last blog I hopefully pointed you down the path to testing the security configuration of your ESX server. By the way, this is not the end all be all for your security needs but just another arrow in your quiver of defense in depth. No one product is going to completely provide security–heck [...]

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How to use ConfigCheck

by Gavin Millard

UPDATE: Thanks to our excellent Product Management team we now have install instructions included in the download of ConfigCheck and directly on the website. I’ll leave my howto below just in case anyone likes to read installation notes with a British slant to them. I’ve seen a few emails floating about with regards to Tripwire [...]

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10,000 People Checkout Tripwire ConfigCheck: Is that a lot?

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos This week Tripwire introduced ConfigCheck which is a free utility to determine how well a VMware environment is configured relative to the VMware security hardening guidelines. I was looking at website traffic for the utility and we are approaching close to 10,000 people who have come to the site. And I wonder [...]

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Tripwire ConfigCheck Launched for Virtualization Security

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos As covered by Denise Dubie in Network World and Kevin Fogarty in CIO today, Tripwire’s new ConfigCheck product was released to the market. Not only does this FREE utility automate the process of ensuring a VMware environment is configured according to VMware’s security hardening guidelines but it also gives remediation guidance for [...]

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