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The Cyber Sleuth's Handbook: Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Essentials
By Kirsten Doyle on Wed, 03/27/2024
In the intricate landscape of cybersecurity, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) stand as the sentinels guarding against the onslaught of digital threats. It involves a multifaceted approach to identifying, mitigating, and recovering from cybersecurity incidents.
In the physical world, the aftermath of a crime scene always yields vital clues...
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Managed Cybersecurity Services Secure Modern Environments
By Troy Thompson on Mon, 03/25/2024
In an era characterized by relentless digital transformation and interconnectedness, cybersecurity has evolved into a complex and dynamic battleground.
Businesses, governments, and individuals find themselves locked in a perpetual struggle against a relentless flood of evolving threats. From sophisticated cybercriminal syndicates to state-sponsored...
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What Makes Fortra’s Tripwire Different
Are you weighing your options between integrity management solutions? Evaluating, purchasing, and deploying new software is hard work, especially when you get down to the granular details of understanding which solutions have which capabilities and matching those capabilities to your organization’s particular needs. In an industry buzzing with ever-changing terminology and a profusion of vendors...
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Fortifying IoT Devices: Unraveling the Art of Securing Embedded Systems
By Isla Sibanda on Fri, 10/13/2023
Interconnected, data-enabled devices are more common now than ever before. By 2027, it is predicted that there will be more than 41 billion new IoT devices. The emergence of each new device offers a fresh vulnerability point for opportunistic bad actors.
In 2022, there were over 112 million cyberattacks carried out on IoT devices worldwide. Without...
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How MSSPs Help with Cybersecurity Compliance
By Zack Jessee on Wed, 10/04/2023
While always a part of business, compliance demands have skyrocketed as the digital world gives us so many more ways to go awry. We all remember the Enron scandal that precipitated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Now, SOX compliance means being above board on a number of cybersecurity requirements as well.
Fortra's Tripwire recently released a new guide:...
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Increasing Your Business’ Cyber Maturity with Fortra
By Antonio Sanchez on Wed, 09/20/2023
When building a tower, it helps to start with a sturdy foundation. Cyber maturity is the tower, and there are three levels that build it:
Foundational IT/OT & Security Control Processes
Fundamental Security Control Capabilities
Advanced Security Control Capabilities
Fortra occupies a unique space in the industry because of the sheer size of the...
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Tripwire Services Comparison Datasheet
Not all organizations have the internal resources necessary to manage their cybersecurity and compliance solutions in-house. This may seem like a roadblock to those who see the greater potential of their solutions and want to do more to reach their goals but cannot expand their technical teams due to the high demand for qualified candidates or budgetary limitations. However, the services available...
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Working with a Reliable Partner for Cybersecurity Success
By Joe Pettit on Thu, 08/31/2023
Technology companies are often seen as revolving doors of constantly shifting personnel. Whether they are seeking a better work environment or chasing a higher paycheck, these staff changes can hurt an organization’s progress. Worse yet, the customers are often negatively impacted by these changes in the continuity of established relationships.
At...
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CISO to BISO – What's your next role?
By Gary Hibberd on Tue, 07/25/2023
Introduction
For the longest time within the cybersecurity industry, we have had Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) whose role is to set the strategic direction for Information Security within an organisation.
But what are the stepping stones to becoming a CISO?
In the past, this has been a difficult question to answer, but typically the...
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A Day in the Life of a SOC Team
By Fortra Staff on Tue, 04/18/2023
This piece was originally published on Fortra’s AlertLogic.com Blog.
Managed detection and response (MDR) would be nothing without a SOC (security operations center). They’re on the frontline of our clients’ defenses — a living, breathing layer of intelligence and protection to complement our automated cybersecurity features. These are the people who...
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Tripwire 2020 Skills Gap Survey
The skills gap remains one of the biggest challenges within the cybersecurity industry. To gain more perspective on what organizations are experiencing, Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 342 security professionals on this issue. This study explores hiring trends, how security teams are changing, and how they plan to address the issue in the face of growing cyber threats.
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Guide
How Infosec Teams Can Overcome the Skills Gap
Does your organization have enough cybersecurity staff with a high level of expertise? If not, you’re not alone. The skills gap is weighing heavily on the minds of digital security team members. In a survey of 342 security professionals, Tripwire found that 83 percent of infosec personnel felt more overworked in 2020 than they did a year earlier. An even greater percentage (85 percent) stated that...
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Communicating Cybersecurity to Boards and Executives: A Workbook to Help Build Cybersecurity Literacy
We’ve all heard, “it’s not a matter of if you’ll be breached, but when.” If a breach occurs, is your organization prepared to detect it quickly? Now more than ever, corporate executives and boards are asking for assurance that the organization and its sensitive data is adequately protected.
This cybersecurity self-assessment is derived from the Cyber-Risk and Oversight Handbook developed by the...
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Tripwire ExpertOps
Many IT teams are facing challenging skills gaps or struggling with optimizing their cybersecurity software. It might be that your team is too small for their responsibilities, or that you’re finding it difficult to attract, train, and retain talent. Turnover is a common problem, with organizations and agencies often losing skilled individuals to new opportunities. Fortunately, strategically...
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Tripwire Managed Services
Today’s IT and InfoSec Executives are challenged with an ever changing cybersecurity landscape. When combined with the proliferation of new sources of information every day, it can be increasing difficult to maintain and operate technology solutions that are designed protect the organization from risk. Many IT organizations are struggling to revise processes to establish governance practices, but...
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10 Ways Tripwire Outperforms Other Cybersecurity Solutions
As a security professional, you’re tasked with protecting your organization against attacks, detecting threats, identifying vulnerabilities and hardening configurations. But in an increasingly crowded marketplace, how do you choose the right cybersecurity partner? From experience and technical innovation to security expertise, Fortra's Tripwire stands out from the competition.
Here are 10 reasons...
Case Study
Leading Nationwide Provider of FDIC-Insured Financial Services
This nationally recognized financial solutions provider offers a set of services that enable smaller banks and other related institutions to compete with the industry’s dominant players. The company’s portfolio of FDIC-insured solutions enables its members and other key constituents to offer innovative services that otherwise might be too difficult or too costly to provide on their own.
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Tripwire and Astro Making Best Practices a Daily Show
Assessing and managing vulnerabilities is a core cybersecurity practice, but it can put a heavy strain on IT security and operations teams. In many cases, introducing vulnerability management as a service is what’s necessary to overcome the challenge of accumulating vulnerabilities across complex IT environments—especially when time and resources are limited.
This was the case for one mid-size U...
Guide
Guide to Managed Cybersecurity Services
As managed services become more popular—and essential, for many—the world is on track to funnel 77 percent of cybersecurity spending toward them by 2026.
But how exactly do managed security services work? Download the e-book to learn how managed services help organizations do more with less, overcome staffing challenges, and turn their attention back toward their business priorities.
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