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Managed Cybersecurity Services Secure Modern Environments
By Troy Thompson on Mon, 03/25/2024
In an era characterized by relentless digital transformation and interconnectedness, cybersecurity has evolved into a complex and dynamic battleground.
Businesses, governments, and individuals find themselves locked in a perpetual struggle against a relentless flood of evolving threats. From sophisticated cybercriminal syndicates to state-sponsored...
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What Makes Fortra’s Tripwire Different
Are you weighing your options between integrity management solutions? Evaluating, purchasing, and deploying new software is hard work, especially when you get down to the granular details of understanding which solutions have which capabilities and matching those capabilities to your organization’s particular needs. In an industry buzzing with ever-changing terminology and a profusion of vendors...
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An Introduction to AWS Security
By Gilad David Maayan on Fri, 01/12/2024
Cloud providers are becoming a core part of IT infrastructure. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's biggest cloud provider, is used by millions of organizations worldwide and is commonly used to run sensitive and mission-critical workloads. This makes it critical for IT and security professionals to understand the basics of AWS security and take...
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Cloud Security Optimization: A Process for Continuous Improvement
By Gilad David Maayan on Thu, 12/28/2023
Cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application with the ultimate goal of minimizing costs while improving performance and efficiency. These resources can range from computational power, memory, and storage to network capabilities. The cloud optimization process involves...
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The 2023 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study Delves into Cloud Security and AI
By Katrina Thompson on Mon, 12/11/2023
The security industry is at a critical juncture. Capturing the state of affairs is a recent report released by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or ISC2.
“A perfect storm”
As they state in their Executive Summary, “Our study shows that a perfect storm of economic uncertainty, rapidly emerging technologies,...
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The Six Pillars of Cybersecurity
By Gary Hibberd on Thu, 11/16/2023
Winter is coming
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, ensuring robust security measures has never been more important. In the new ISO 27001:2022 standard, there is a new requirement for organisations to establish control of their Cloud services, which includes every flavor of cloud from Software as a Service (SaaS) to Platform as a...
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Cloud Watching Report: Key Takeaways
By Anirudh Chand on Mon, 11/13/2023
The capabilities of cloud computing have changed the digital landscape significantly, and the popularity of cloud solutions only continues to increase. According to Gartner, the market for public cloud services is expected to surpass 700 billion USD by the end of 2024. The growth of cloud technologies presents a wealth of new opportunities for IT teams...
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How MSSPs Help with Cybersecurity Compliance
By Zack Jessee on Wed, 10/04/2023
While always a part of business, compliance demands have skyrocketed as the digital world gives us so many more ways to go awry. We all remember the Enron scandal that precipitated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Now, SOX compliance means being above board on a number of cybersecurity requirements as well.
Fortra's Tripwire recently released a new guide:...
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Increasing Your Business’ Cyber Maturity with Fortra
By Antonio Sanchez on Wed, 09/20/2023
When building a tower, it helps to start with a sturdy foundation. Cyber maturity is the tower, and there are three levels that build it:
Foundational IT/OT & Security Control Processes
Fundamental Security Control Capabilities
Advanced Security Control Capabilities
Fortra occupies a unique space in the industry because of the sheer size of the...
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Tripwire Services Comparison Datasheet
Not all organizations have the internal resources necessary to manage their cybersecurity and compliance solutions in-house. This may seem like a roadblock to those who see the greater potential of their solutions and want to do more to reach their goals but cannot expand their technical teams due to the high demand for qualified candidates or budgetary limitations. However, the services available...
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Working with a Reliable Partner for Cybersecurity Success
By Joe Pettit on Thu, 08/31/2023
Technology companies are often seen as revolving doors of constantly shifting personnel. Whether they are seeking a better work environment or chasing a higher paycheck, these staff changes can hurt an organization’s progress. Worse yet, the customers are often negatively impacted by these changes in the continuity of established relationships.
At...
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Expert Compliance Automation Tips for Financial Services
Thu, 08/17/2023
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 Solutions Engineer Dan...
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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.
Managed service providers...
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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 cover the main...
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How Tripwire Helped Walgreens Take a Proactive Approach to Security
Mon, 08/15/2022
Walgreens, founded in 1901, is one of the largest pharmacy companies in the U.S., handling online and in-store sales as well as processing the prescription needs of millions of customers. It needed a security solution that would give them an integrated, all-up view into its IT ecosystem. Its Tripwire ExpertOps solution has given the company a much more proactive view and approach to its security...
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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. However, most breaches...
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Multi-Cloud Security Best Practice Guide
When you opt to use multiple cloud providers, you’re implementing a multi-cloud strategy. This practice is increasingly common, and can refer to mixing SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) offerings as well as public cloud environments that fall under the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) category. The most common public cloud environments today are Amazon Web Services ...
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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 framework in two core...
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Six Security Controls to Prevent Your Cloud from Getting Hacked
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...