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Name Our Blog Contest

by Cindy Valladares

I have to admit that it was long overdue. IT security is not necessarily the most sexy topic on the planet, but we can certainly be more creative than “IT Security, Compliance and Best Practices” to name our blog, don’t you think? Well, so here’s your chance to demonstrate that we could be fun and [...]

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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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The Tripwire IT Security Incident Top 5 (or is it Bottom 5?) for 2010

by ~Previous Contributers

What are your Top 5 IT Security Events for 2010?
Needless to say, it got the hamster wheel spinning faster than usual. Any time I’ve been asked to cobble together a list of “Top anythings”, it has always been akin to “What are your Top 5 bands or movies?” By that, I mean, they usually change George Costanza-style on the drive home (video) (ohhhhh, I should’ve said ).

With that in mind, here are my Top 5 IT Security Stories/Incidents worthy of consideration in no particular order, with a detailed rationale for each of my choices. Agree? Disagree? Think of one on the drive home? Fire away in the comment section.

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Gene Kim Video Blog: The Man Behind the Camera

by ~Previous Contributers

At this point you have seen lots of videos of Gene (@realgenekim) talking about his areas of passion as well as interviewing others. The other day Gene surprised me with a topic for a post. For most of those videos I (@matthixson) have been the person behind the camera and Gene wanted to do a [...]

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Talk like a Pirate Day is Sept 19!!!

by Chris Orr

So…Talk Like a Pirate Day is on September 19. This is the day when all ye landlubbers are supposed to go around and say things like Arrr! and Avast! and Keel Haul Him!!!!…. Actually, I often come across people who need to be keel hauled so it is a common phrase around here on a [...]

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