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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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Tripwire Enterprise: Five ‘Other’ Things You Should Know

Image 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...
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Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product

Image 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...
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Using MFT to Solve Your Cloud Data Challenges: 5 Key Takeaways

Image As business operations evolve, the challenge of securely moving data within the cloud is one of elevated concern. Transferring sensitive information to it is another. Many are caught between what worked in on-prem technologies and what is needed in cloud-based architectures. Others have sidestepped the security challenges by...
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Former contractor accused of remotely accessing town's water treatment facility

Image A federal grand jury has indicted a former employee of a contractor operating a California town's wastewater treatment facility, alleging that he remotely turned off critical systems and could have endangered public health and safety. 53-year-old Rambler Gallor of Tracy, California, held a full-time position at a Massachusetts...
Guide

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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What (Still) Needs to be Done to Secure the U.S. Power Grid in 2023?

Image It’s no secret that the U.S. power grid is one of the main foundations of the nation’s economy, infrastructure, and daily way of life. Now that almost everything is digitized, it is hinging on it even more. We wouldn’t be able to use even most vending machines (not to mention cell towers or the internet) without a working...
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The Future of Driverless Cars: Technology, Security and AI

Image Back in 2015, we published an article about the apparent perils of driverless cars. At that time, the newness and novelty of sitting back and allowing a car to drive you to your destination created a source of criminal fascination for some, and a nightmare for others. It has been eight years since the original article was...
Guide

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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Security Journeys: From Change Management to Compliance

Image Zero Trust seems to no longer command the volume of articles that once set it up as a trend that promised a bright new future for security. This is in part because security is a journey. Rushed implementations and low returns often result in burnout with new technology, and generally the real work happens in the quiet stages...
Guide

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...
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Tripwire NERC CIP Report Catalog

Fortra’s Tripwire NERC CIP Solution Suite is an advanced offering that augments Tripwire’s tools for meeting 23 of NERC CIP’s 44 requirements. The Tripwire NERC CIP Solution Suite allows you to achieve and maintain NERC CIP compliance with high efficacy and reduced effort. This suite includes continuous monitoring of cyber assets, automated assessment of security, and audit...
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Distributed Energy Resources and Grid Security

Image As the United States government, the energy industry, and individual consumers work toward cleaner and more sustainable energy solutions, it is crucial to consider how new and advancing technologies affect, and are affected by, cybersecurity concerns. ­­­­Increasing use of smart energy devices can be useful for consumers to have...
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A Look at The 2023 Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report

Image From its inception, the automotive industry has been shaped by innovation and disruption. In recent years, these transformations have taken shape in rapid digitization, ever-growing Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure, and advanced connectivity. These shifts have redirected the automotive industry, meeting and surpassing...
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How Retiring Gas and Coal Plants Affects Grid Stability

Image Legacy gas and coal plants are being aged out – and no one wants to pay enough to keep them going. With increased pressure from green energy laws and added competition from renewable sources, these monsters of Old Power are being shown the door. Considering they've predated and precipitated all Industrial Revolutions (except for...
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How to Advance ICS Cybersecurity: Implement Continuous Monitoring

Image Industrial control systems are fundamental to all industrial processes, from power generation to water treatment and manufacturing. ICS refers to the collection of devices that govern a process to ensure its safe and effective execution. These devices include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed...
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The State of the US National Cybersecurity Strategy for the Electric Grid

Image The distribution systems of the U.S. energy grid — the portions of the grid that carry electricity to consumers — are growing more susceptible to cyber-attacks, in part due to the advent of monitoring and control technology and their reliance on them. However, the magnitude of the possible consequences of such attacks is not...
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Tripwire Enterprise 9.0: What you need to know

Image 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...
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The Future of Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (CASE) Vehicles is Upon Us.

Image The popularity of electric vehicles is partly a response to the desire of achieving sustainability and carbon footprint reduction. Automobile manufacturers are making substantial investments to tackle emissions issues, create environment-friendly vehicles, and align with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) requirements....
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How FIM Protects Assets in a Borderless World

Image 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...