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Digging Deeper: Discover Advanced Tripwire Enterprise Capabilities

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...
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Top Security Misconfigurations to Watch Out For

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...
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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...
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Expert Compliance Automation Tips for Financial Services

Cybersecurity compliance standards like the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) do an excellent job of hardening systems against breaches. This is especially important in the financial services sector, a common target for cybercriminals. This on-demand webinar presented by Senior...
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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 ...
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How Managed Services Can Help With Cybersecurity Compliance

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. ...
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Toolkit

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...
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Getting in Control of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations

Organizations in the financial sector are all too aware that their industry continues to be one of the top targets for cyber criminals. Among financial services and insurance organizations, the leading cause of breaches is system intrusion. That’s why so many cybersecurity compliance regulations have sprung up to ensure systems are kept hardened against attack. This guide will...
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.
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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...
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How Finance Companies Bank on Tripwire ExpertOps

Finance companies opt for managed services to stay compliant, bolster overburdened security teams, and get ongoing support in keeping their data safe from damaging breaches. The finance sector regularly finds itself on the front lines of emerging attack techniques; attackers commonly search for edge vulnerabilities and test new malware variations against financial systems....
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Tripwire State of Cyber Hygiene Report

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...
Guide

Sustaining SOX Compliance Through Automation Using COBIT Framework

Achieving compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) can be a monumental effort. Maintaining those controls and audit reporting on an ongoing basis can be even more difficult. The SEC recommends automated controls for more efficient and effective compliance results. This white paper details the SOX requirements that are best addressed by automated controls using the COBIT...
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Security Configuration Management Buyer's Guide

Security configuration management (SCM) exists at the point where IT security and IT operations meet. It’s a core security control that combines elements of vulnerability assessment, automated remediation, and configuration assessment. The goal of SCM is to reduce security risks by ensuring that systems are properly configured — or hardened — to meet internal and/or regulatory...
Guide

5 File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Myths and Misconceptions

File integrity monitoring (FIM) is the cybersecurity process that monitors and detects changes in your environment to alert you to threats and helps you remediate them. While monitoring environments for change sounds simple enough, there are plenty of misconceptions about how exactly FIM fits into a successful cybersecurity program. It’s essential to address those common myths...
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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...
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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...
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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...