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What Is an Axon Agent, and Why Do You Need One?
By Michael Betti on Mon, 04/15/2024
The number of endpoints in an organization often exceeds the number of employees. Managing these often disparate entities is more than a full-time job. Moreover, keeping them secure is equally difficult, yet securing all of your endpoints against cyber threats has become paramount for organizations worldwide. A common oversight that undermines these...
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Exploring Advanced Tripwire Enterprise Capabilities
By John Salmi on Fri, 04/05/2024
In today's digital landscape, it is important for organizations to depend upon the tools they use for cybersecurity. Large businesses can employ many security solutions, practices, and policies that must combine to create a robust and layered security strategy. While many of these tools are important and necessary, organizations often don't use them to...
Datasheet
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...
On-Demand Webinar
Digging Deeper: Discover Advanced Tripwire Enterprise Capabilities
Thu, 02/22/2024
Most people know Fortra’s Tripwire Enterprise for its essential file integrity monitoring and security configuration management capabilities. But what about the more advanced use cases, like dealing with zero-day vulnerabilities or isolating specific systems when they contain a critical risk?
Watch the on-demand webinar presented by Forta’s Tripwire to find out more about these unique use cases...
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Know Thyself and Thy Network
By Chris Hudson on Wed, 01/10/2024
The shifting sands of IT make the adage "you never know it all" ever more true as time goes by. I recall days when it felt like you could click through every major directory of Yahoo and know a little something about everything. I was a young man with a voracious reading appetite and an active imagination – both of which were thoroughly outpaced by the...
Datasheet
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...
Guide
5 Things Your FIM Solution Should Do for You
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is a critical security control that helps organizations detect system changes in real-time that indicate impacts to compliance and potential cybersecurity incidents, empowering teams to respond rapidly.
FIM is required by many major compliance standards such as North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP), the...
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Tripwire Enterprise: Five ‘Other’ Things You Should Know
By Faisal Parkar on Thu, 08/10/2023
Network engineers and security analysts have a lot in common. Both require the ability to not only understand the problems at hand but to ascertain the moments leading to them. A typical scenario would include a request to help with a problem a customer has been experiencing. The person you are trying to assist is probably a member of the IT team in the...
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Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product
By Jeff Moline on Thu, 07/27/2023
How many security products does it take to monitor an organization? Even a small company often finds itself working with multiple monitoring tools to gain visibility into its security posture. This creates multiple blind spots, as a security analyst needs to jump between different tools with different formats and configurations to research a security...
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Tripwire Enterprise 9.0: What you need to know
By David Bruce on Wed, 01/04/2023
Tripwire recently announced the release of Tripwire Enterprise (TE), version 9.0, Axon Agent 3.27, and TE Agent 9.0.0. While the full list of features may be viewed on our web site, as a product manager, I wanted to take some time to introduce some of the changes in this new release.
What’s new in Tripwire Enterprise 9.0?
The first significant change...
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How FIM Protects Assets in a Borderless World
By Tripwire Guest Authors on Mon, 12/19/2022
Recent advancements in the digital landscape have led to a new kind of paradigm, one where enterprise perimeters are no longer clearly defined or limited. The rapid uptake of remote working, cloud, and IoT led to these prominent shifts, resulting in users, applications, and data no longer residing exclusively within the perimeters of the enterprise....
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Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases – Advanced Monitoring
By David Bruce on Tue, 11/29/2022
Many people remember where they were during historic events. Whether it is a personal, or a public occurrence, it’s just human nature to remember these significant moments. Every profession also has its share of memorable events. In medicine, those who were in the profession will remember where they were when they heard about the first heart...
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Integrity Monitoring Use Cases: Compliance
By David Bruce on Wed, 10/19/2022
What is File Integrity Monitoring?
The IT ecosystems of enterprises are highly dynamic. Typically, organizations react to this volatility by investing in asset discovery and Security Configuration Management (SCM). These core controls enable businesses to compile an inventory of authorized devices and monitor the configurations of those assets. In...
Guide
Beyond the Basics: Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases
Security, compliance, and IT operations leaders need a powerful and effective way to accurately identify security misconfigurations and indicators of compromise. Explore the many ways Tripwire Enterprise can protect your organization with superior security and
continuous compliance.
Guide
Why Integrity Should Be Your Organizing Cybersecurity Principle
While integrity has been a common word in the cybersecurity lexicon for years, its meaning and use have been relatively limited. It may be time to reconsider its central role in security. The reality of always-connected networks, fluid data transfers across cloud and hybrid environments, and broadly deployed endpoints presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at integrity as an organizing...
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Threat Prevention is Foundational
How proper foundational controls help block today’s advanced threats
Guide
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
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Software Buyer's Guide
There’s a lot more to file integrity monitoring than simply detecting change. Although FIM is a common policy requirement, there are many FIM capabilities and processes you can elect to implement or not. These can vary from a simple “checkbox” compliance tool to the option to build effective security and operational controls. These decisions directly affect the value your organization gains from...
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The Value of True File Integrity Monitoring
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a technology that monitors for changes in files that may indicate a cyberattack. In many organizations, however, FIM mostly means noise: too many changes, no context around these changes, and little insight into whether a detected change actually poses a risk.
What does file integrity monitoring do? FIM, and often referred to as “change audit” was around long...