Organizations are often overburdened with managing complex tools to handle their most important compliance responsibilities, and in many cases lack the internal headcount to manage those tools with highly-trained expertise. Managed services can solve your security staffing and resource challenges by arming your team with security expertise to maintain optimal compliance. Managed service providers...

There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle cybersecurity for you. The truth is, cloud providers use a “shared responsibility model”. They protect underlying Cloud infrastructure, but leave protection of Cloud-deployed assets and data up to you. To help meet this need, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has created the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy. This...

Do you have a centralized view of your organization’s security posture and policy compliance across all cloud accounts? A Tripwire and Dimensional Research survey conducted in 2021 found that only 21 percent of security professionals could answer “yes.” The survey included more than 300 cybersecurity professionals who are directly responsible for the security of public cloud infrastructure within...

Amazon has captured nearly half of the cloud market making it a prime target for attacks. When AWS accounts are compromised, the go-to payload is often cryptocurrency mining where attackers make money using stolen CPU cycles that get billed to the victim's account. Fortunately, there is guidance from the Center for Internet Security (CIS). In 2016, CIS launched the Amazon Web Services Foundations...

Cybersecurity professionals the world over share common cloud security concerns like risk management, configuration security, and cloud compliance. As organizations expand further into the cloud, there continues to be an influx of simple mistakes that can expose organizations to significant security, privacy, and regulatory risks. Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to understand what...

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...

Moving mission critical applications to the cloud provides a whole host of benefits but it also means trusting cloud providers with key aspects of security and compliance. This paper provides tools you can use to evaluate the security and compliance offerings of cloud computing partners. It also describes how Tripwire’s solutions can be used to build and deploy a rock-solid security foundation...