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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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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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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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Football

How is infosec like a busy football weekend?

by Dwayne Melancon

This past weekend was a long holiday weekend due to Thanksgiving Day in the US.  For many people, there are 4 big traditions that go along with this: Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade; Eating too much turkey at Thanksgiving dinner; Shopping like crazy on Black Friday (I mentioned Black Friday in my last post); [...]

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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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The Evolution of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

by Cindy Valladares

A few weeks ago, eIQnetworks commissioned a survey of security professionals. According to the press release, “the SIEM approach of relying entirely on logs and other event-based information to effectively address modern enterprise threats is now dead.” There was a lot of reaction from analysts, bloggers and influencers on the ‘SIEM is dead’ affirmation. Here [...]

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