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 Payment...

File integrity monitoring (FIM) is used to detect and correct unauthorized system changes that may be indicators of compromise. As the inventors of FIM, Fortra’s Tripwire has a multi-decade track record of helping organizations that want to reduce cyber risk and achieve system integrity to avoid security breaches and audit fines. This toolkit is a collection of helpful resources such as articles...

The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which takes a deep dive into data-driven findings on the state of global cybersecurity across a number of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, financial and public administration. This year’s report revealed trends behind 79,635 cybersecurity incidents and 5,258 confirmed data breaches across 88 countries. To help security...

Most organizations understand the critical role that vulnerability management (VM) plays in helping them meet compliance requirements, ensure security and reduce risk. However, many organizations discover, only after investing in a solution, that it doesn’t properly address their needs. Avoiding this costly mistake can be difficult though, because at first glance many VM solutions appear similar...

Building your organization’s vulnerability management program is a daunting yet rewarding journey, similar to climbing a mountain. Doing this takes time, planning and hard work, but will be worth it when you get to the top. To help you take on this challenge, Tripwire has outlined the five maturity levels you will use as your guide when building your program. Learn about how you can minimize risk...

Tripwire’s State of Cyber Hygiene report reveals the results of an extensive cybersecurity survey conducted in partnership with Dimensional Research. The survey examined if and how organizations are implementing security controls that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) refers to as "Cyber Hygiene." Real-world breaches and security incidents prove over and over again that many of the most...

Maintaining security and compliance in today’s ever changing environment is a never ending task. To manage that task, the most successful companies adopt a systematic approach that promotes continuous improvement. Tripwire is a leading provider of enterprise-class foundational controls for security, compliance and IT operations . Tripwire worked with its most successful customers to understand the...

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...

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 for...