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10 Steps for Early Incident Detection

10 Steps for Early Incident Detection

by Cindy Valladares

We’ve all said it before: “When it comes to data breaches, it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN.” As we accept that eventually we’re going to have to respond to incidents, it just makes sense to focus our attention to detecting them earlier and effectively. I’ve recently had the pleasure of working with Brian Honan, [...]

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Good resource on logging and retention practices – a legal perspective

Good resource on logging and retention practices – a legal perspective

by Dwayne Melancon

In the event of a data breach, law enforcement, regulators, payment card auditors, clients and others will ask about your log file management and your alerting protocols. Don’t be caught unaware.

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Introducing Tripwire Log Center 6.5.1

Introducing Tripwire Log Center 6.5.1

by Cindy Valladares

Today we’re announcing an update to Tripwire Log Center. This release has some new capabilities to help you do your log management and incident detection functions easier and faster. Here are some of the highlights of this update: Find log events faster. We’re utilizing MITRE’s Common Event Expression to standardize log event messages. You benefit [...]

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Why physical and information security working together might give a Hollywood spy a headache

Why physical and information security working together might give a Hollywood spy a headache

by Shawna Turner-Rice

Everyone has a favorite spy movie. I admit to a particular fondness for the Bond franchise, even though most people can probably forecast the storyline without ever actually seeing any specific movie.  There is a specific piece of that trope that completely speaks to the relationship between cybersecurity and physical security. In all spy movies, [...]

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Thumbnail image for SIEM Alone Won’t Save Us from the Holiday Noise (or the Fruit Cake!)

SIEM Alone Won’t Save Us from the Holiday Noise (or the Fruit Cake!)

by Crystal Miller

Holidays are great at revealing the lies we tell ourselves. The wish lists are long, the calendar is overbooked and yet we are still smiling. We depend and blindly trust that our data is logged and our events are managed on our devices.  In the case your cell phone goes missing, would you be able to [...]

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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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