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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/22/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 15th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Newly Uncovered PyPI Package Drops Fileless Cryptominer...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Tue, 08/16/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 8st, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years ...
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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. ...
Managed Security Services
Guide

Meeting Multiple Compliance Objectives Simultaneously With the CIS Controls

The CIS Controls are a set of recommendations comprised of controls and benchmarks. They are intended to serve as a cybersecurity “best practice” for preventing damaging attacks. The recommendations are meant to provide a holistic approach to cybersecurity and to be effective across all industries. Adhering to them serves as an effective foundation for any organization’s security and compliance...
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Guide

The Executive's Guide to the CIS Controls

See how simple and effective security controls can create a framework that helps you protect your organization and data from known cyber attack vectors. This publication was designed to assist executives by providing guidance for implementing broad baseline technical controls that are required to ensure a robust network security posture. In this guide, we will cover a wide range of topics...
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Datasheet

Tripwire ExpertOps

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...
Cybersecurity Skills Gap
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Tripwire ExpertOps and HIPAA Compliance

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...
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The Tripwire HIPAA Solution

The United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or 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...
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Tripwire Enterprise and Cisco AMP Threat Grid

Overview There is mounting concern at the senior executive and board level regarding cybersecurity, driven by highly visible advanced targeted attacks. These attacks threaten precious IP, valuable customer information, company valuation and trade secrets. To truly protect valuable resources, organizations have to accept the nature of modern networked environments and devices, and start defending...
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Tripwire Managed Services

Today’s IT and InfoSec Executives are challenged with an ever changing cybersecurity landscape. When combined with the proliferation of new sources of information every day, it can be increasing difficult to maintain and operate technology solutions that are designed protect the organization from risk. Many IT organizations are struggling to revise processes to establish governance practices, but...
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Maintaining the Security and Integrity of Electronic Health Record Systems

The value of electronic health record (EHR) systems is immense. These digital records are designed to be available anytime and anywhere, connecting healthcare providers with patient data. EHRs are a central repository of patient medical histories, medications, diagnoses, immunization dates, allergies, lab results and radiology images. With access to this accurate patient information, providers can...
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NIST
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The CIS Controls and Tripwire Solutions

Many organizations face the challenging threat environment by strategically choosing a security controls framework as a reference for initiating, implementing, measuring, and evaluating their security posture, as well as managing risk. While many frameworks are available, one of the most notable and commonly used is the Center for Internet Security’s CIS Controls. This well known framework has...
Compliance
CIS Controls
Datasheet

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix with CIS Controls and Tripwire Mapping

It’s not enough to cast a wide cybersecurity net and hope you catch the adversaries trying to compromise your data. Instead, you need to narrow your focus to make your efforts truly impactful. But which of the countless potential cybersecurity attacks out there should you choose to prioritize? MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) Framework and the Center for...
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Tripwire and Astro Making Best Practices a Daily Show

Assessing and managing vulnerabilities is a core cybersecurity practice, but it can put a heavy strain on IT security and operations teams. In many cases, introducing vulnerability management as a service is what’s necessary to overcome the challenge of accumulating vulnerabilities across complex IT environments—especially when time and resources are limited. This was the case for one mid-size U...
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SaaS Security
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VERT Threat Alert: September 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
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VERT Threat Alert: August 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 08/09/2022
Today’s Patch Tuesday VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1015 on Wednesday, August 10th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-34713 According to Microsoft, CVE-2022-34713 is a variant of the Dogwalk vulnerability. There has been a lot...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 1, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 1, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/08/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 1st, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Windows 11 Smart App Control blocks files used to push...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of July 25, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of July 25, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/01/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of July 25, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. SonicWall fixed critical SQLi in Analytics and GMS products ...
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VERT Threat Alert: September 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
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VERT Threat Alert: July 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 07/12/2022
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1011 on Wednesday, July 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-22047 Microsoft is reporting this month that a single vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of June 20, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of June 20, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 06/27/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of June 20, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens' Industrial Network...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
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VERT Threat Alert: June 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
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VERT Threat Alert: June 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 06/14/2022
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s June 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1007 on Wednesday, June 15th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs None of the vulnerabilities patched this month have been exploited in-the-wild or publicly disclosed according to Microsoft. However,...
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