Blog
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 their full potential. With any security tool...
Blog
Security vs. Compliance: What's the Difference?
By Anthony Israel-Davis on Thu, 04/04/2024
Security and compliance – a phrase often uttered in the same breath as if they are two sides of the same coin, two members of the same team, or two great tastes that go great together. As much as I would like to see auditors, developers, and security analysts living in harmony like a delicious Reese’s cup, a recent gap analysis that I was part of reminded me that too often, the peanut butter and...
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...
Blog
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 growth of the internet and my own developing...
On-Demand Webinar
Top Security Misconfigurations to Watch Out For
Thu, 11/30/2023
Misconfigurations continue to be a leading cause of cybersecurity breaches. Luckily, you can prevent and correct them with the right knowledge and tools on your side. The National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) sharing the most common misconfigurations observed by their Red and Blue team...
Guide
What Cybersecurity Pros Think of Zero Trust Today
Zero trust isn’t a new model, but its influence on the cybersecurity industry has strengthened over time since 1994. Zero trust became especially top-of-mind a few years ago when remote work and cloud services took off, prompting organizational leaders to rethink the way they enforced cybersecurity controls in an increasingly perimeter-less world. Is zero trust just another cybersecurity buzzword...
Guide
10 Common Security Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them
Is your organization using default security settings, or do you have a security configuration management (SCM) program in place to ensure your configurations are as secure as possible? Misconfigurations are a leading cause of unauthorized access and security breaches, creating entry points for hackers in servers, websites, software, and cloud infrastructure. The Open Worldwide Application Security...
Datasheet
Tripwire Services Comparison Matrix
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...
Blog
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 organisation. During these situations, we...
Blog
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 incident. Adding to this problem is that the...
Blog
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 is in the appearance of the interface. We...
Blog
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. This has led to enterprise perimeters becoming...
Blog
Choosing the Right Industrial Cybersecurity Framework
By John Salmi on Wed, 12/07/2022
It’s no surprise that industrial environments have become increasingly valuable targets for malicious behavior. The State of Security has featured many cybersecurity events across myriad industrial verticals, including but not limited to chemical manufacturing , transportation , power generation and petrochemical . Several of these industries have taken great strides in improving their defense...
Blog
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 transplant or the discovery of a cure for a particular...
Blog
Developing an Effective Change Management Program
By John Salmi on Tue, 11/08/2022
Change detection is easy. What is not so easy, is reconciling change. Change reconciliation is where most organizations stumble. What was the change? When was it made? Who made it? Was it authorized? The ability to answer these questions are the elements that comprise change management. Historically, the haste of accomplishing a task consisted of a sysadmin moving full-speed ahead to satisfy the...
Guide
Understanding Your Attack Surface: The First Step in Risk-based Security Intelligence
As chief information security officer (CISO), it’s now a job requirement to effectively communicate with your non-technical C-suite and board of directors—preferably not just after there’s been a breach. This is the first in a series of executive white papers designed to share strategies for reducing your attack surface risk as well as how to clearly and objectively communicate your overall security posture to non-technical executives. Download this white paper and learn about: The definition of “attack surface” — and risks associated Design goals of attack surface analytics What non-technical C-suite executives and board members want
Guide
Threat Prevention is Foundational
How proper foundational controls help block today’s advanced threats