The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) maintains comprehensive reliability standards that define requirements for planning and operating the bulk electric system (BES). Among these are the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards, which specify a minimum set of controls and processes for power generation and transmission companies to follow to ensure...

When you start a Tripwire® IP360™ scan, there are 11 tasks that run in background, and many of these tasks are influenced by other information. Details for each scan task Name Resolution During Name Resolution, the IP Addresses provided during Network Configuration are resolved to host names that are displayed during scanning and in scan reports. This is done using the DNS Servers configured...

Tripwire® IP360™ is an enterprise class vulnerability and risk management solution that enables cost-effective reduction of cyber threat risk by focusing your remediation efforts on the highest risks and most critical assets. The solution is built upon a scalable architecture that delivers risk based vulnerability assessment with speed, reliability and accuracy along with the industry’s most...

Defending against attacks in today’s threat landscape is becoming increasingly difficult given the high rate of change on enterprise networks, the constantly evolving threat environment and the increased focus on internal and regulatory compliance. Organizations require a comprehensive view of security risk across the global enterprise network. While large quantities of data for security...

Figuring out what to fix first when vulnerabilities arise is crucial to minimizing security and compliance risks, especially in large networks. Tripwire and FireMon have made this never-ending task easier and more automatic by integrating Tripwire® IP360™ and FireMon Security Manager with Risk Analyzer. Businesses now know how easily vulnerabilities can be accessed by attackers, enabling...

Tripwire Device Profiler Tripwire Device Profiler is a vulnerability scan engine appliance that can discover and profile every IP-enabled device on the customer’s network to determine the applications, services,operating systems, protocols, and vulnerabilities that may put an asset at risk. Tripwire Device Profiler executes vulnerability scans and passes the scan data via SSL encryption to...

Transform Your Security Management Program The integration of Kenna with Tripwire® IP360™ enables enterprises to identify vulnerabilities across every layer of the technology stack, manage the remediation of these vulnerabilities and then gauge the overall vulnerability management performance. Kenna supports the Tripwire IP360 vulnerability management solution right out of the box, making it...

Large, complex networks require the implementation and management of thousands of access rules in routers, firewalls and other network infrastructure—across thousands of endpoints. This combination of rules, endpoints and the vulnerabilities the endpoints may exhibit make risk management a complicated practice in any enterprise. Manually determining which devices and rules are responsible for...

The Challenges: Too Much Data Manual Processes Workforce Shortage With threats proliferating at an unprecedented rate, organizations and their IT security teams are facing multiple challenges: Managing the large volumes of data and alerts that they receive and the difficulty of extracting actionable intelligence from their data to fix the right things at the right time The manual...

When should your security strategy include agent-based monitoring? It can be difficult to discern when and how to incorporate agents into your vulnerability management processes. There are several instances in which agent-based monitoring offers superior support and protection across your networks. But that doesn’t mean you need to opt for a 100 percent agent-based approach, either. There are...

The Tripwire® ExpertOpsSM Proxy Appliance is a secure and hardened platform that eliminates the need for customers to perform any type of operating system management. Tripwire’s appliance based approach reduces the level of effort and skills needed to maintain and operate network connections to Tripwire ExpertOps, all while maintaining a low-risk footprint. General System Overview The...

Maximize the value of Tripwire® IP360™ by adding additional leverage to your valuable strategic business solution, and extend Tripwire IP360 to achieve better, faster and more cost effective vulnerability risk management and compliance. Many enterprise applications lack a native command line interface. This can be a challenge if you want to automate and integrate basic operations, which is a...

Understanding security risk on the global enterprise network is essential to comprehensive IT vulnerability management (VM). But there are several hurdles your VM program must overcome, like the high rate of change on enterprise networks, the constantly changing threat environment and increased focus on internal and regulatory compliance. The solution is Tripwire® IP360™, the leading...

Vulnerability management solutions are only valuable when they help you prioritize your efforts effectively. Fortra’s Tripwire® IP360™ is an enterprise-class vulnerability management solution that enables cost-effective reduction of cyberthreat risk by focusing your remediation efforts on the highest risks and most critical assets. The solution is built upon a scalable architecture that delivers...

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...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires all publicly held companies to establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting to reduce the possibility of corporate fraud. SOX is not specific on the types of controls that are required, but points to the COBIT framework to provide organizations’ guidance on their IT governance. The Challenge Change is ever occurring in your systems...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) by mandating procedures and controls to assure the public that critical and private information is controlled from loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. With few exceptions, an organization is subject to HIPAA if it exchanges data related to the health care...

Federal security managers expect that most federally run systems are actively engaging with FISMA compliance for protecting federal data and systems. However, as we all know, federal information does not remain only in federally operated systems. Data and IT systems connect via the Internet and other networks for business, operations and research. Information about citizens, banking and finance,...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was created to help organizations that process credit card payments, secure the cardholder environment to prevent credit card fraud, cyber threats and other security vulnerabilities. The latest version, 4.0, provides specific security guidance on handling, processing, transmitting and storing credit card data to minimize the theft,...

Your Tripwire implementation captures data from thousands of systems with millions of unique elements. Figuring out which configurations, security events or changes need your attention can distract from more strategic business tasks—or from using the valuable intelligence it provides to manage IT risk throughout your enterprise. So if you’d like to spend more time managing your business and less...