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Integrity Monitoring Use Cases: Compliance

Image What is File Integrity Monitoring? The IT ecosystems of enterprises are highly dynamic. Typically, organizations react to this volatility by investing in asset discovery and Security Configuration Management (SCM). These core controls enable businesses to compile an inventory of authorized devices and monitor the configurations...
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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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VERT Threat Alert: September 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Image Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1021 on Wednesday, September 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-23960 The first disclosed vulnerability this month is Spectre-BHB that is discussed in great...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 5, 2022

Image 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 September 5th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Critical RCE Vulnerability...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 29, 2022

Image 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 29th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. WordPress 6.0.2 Patches...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 22, 2022

Image 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 22nd, 2022, including some commentary of mine. VMware fixed a privilege escalation issue in...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022

Image 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...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022

Image 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...
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How to Balance NERC CIPv6 vs. CIPv5 Compliance (and Why it Matters)

The extension of the NERC CIPv5 deadline to July 2016 means that registered entities have gained a small window of time for their compliance projects, but they now face a combined compliance deadline for CIPv5 and CIPv6 in July. Join Nick Santora, CEO of Curricula, and Tim Erlin, Director of IT Risk & Security Strategist at Tripwire, for a discussion on the potential impact of...
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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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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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Threat Prevention is Foundational

How proper foundational controls help block today’s advanced threats
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Physical Cybersecurity: ICS Attack Scenarios and CIP-007 R1

The premise of a January 27, 2015, article by CNBC is that there is good evidence that a cyber attack against nearly any country’s critical infrastructure could be imminent. This kind of reporting has become so commonplace, but this doesn’t seem like just more FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) journalism. ...
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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...