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Non-repudiation: Your Virtual Shield in Cybersecurity
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Non-repudiation: Your Virtual Shield in Cybersecurity

By Dilki Rathnayake on Tue, 01/09/2024
In the digital world, where countless users communicate, share data, and engage in diverse activities, determining the origin and actions behind these interactions can be quite challenging. This is where non-repudiation steps in. Coupling other security factors, such as delivery proof, identity verification, and a digital signature, creates non...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Operational Resilience: What It Is and Why It's Important
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Operational Resilience: What It Is and Why It's Important

By Nick Hogg on Wed, 12/13/2023
Frankly stated, operational resilience is your ability to climb the mountain, no matter the weather. Businesses now need more than a good security structure to weather the storms of AI-driven threats, APTs, cloud-based risks, and hyper-distributed environments. And more importantly, operational resilience in 2024 requires a paradigm shift....
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Incident Detection & Investigation
NIST CSF 2.0: What you need to know
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NIST CSF 2.0: What you need to know

By Antonio Sanchez on Mon, 12/11/2023
Organizations looking to protect their sensitive data and assets against cyberattacks may lack the ability to build a cybersecurity strategy without any structured help. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a free, public framework to help any organization mature its IT security posture. Recently, the institute published an...
Compliance
NIST
Change Variance: How Tiny Differences Can Impact Your IT World
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Change Variance: How Tiny Differences Can Impact Your IT World

By Chris Hudson on Mon, 11/20/2023
In the vast and ever-evolving universe of information technology, there's one constant: change (that and cliches about constants!). Servers, systems, and software – they all get updated and modified. But, have you ever stopped to consider how even tiny differences between these digital entities can sometimes lead to unexpected challenges? In the...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Plastic surgeries warned by the FBI that they are being targeted by cybercriminals
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Plastic surgeries warned by the FBI that they are being targeted by cybercriminals

By Graham Cluley on Wed, 10/18/2023
Plastic surgeries across the United States have been issued a warning that they are being targeted by cybercriminals in plots designed to steal sensitive data including patients' medical records and photographs that will be later used for extortion. The warning, which was issued by the FBI yesterday and is directed towards plastic surgery offices...
Cybersecurity
Compliance
HIPAA
How MSSPs Help with Cybersecurity Compliance
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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...
Cybersecurity
Compliance
Managed Security Services
Closing Integrity Gaps with NIST CSF
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Closing Integrity Gaps with NIST CSF

By Lane Thames on Wed, 09/27/2023
The then-new 2014 NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was designed to plug security gaps in operational technology. It’s still in use today and more relevant than ever. Fortra’s whitepaper provides a cohesive review of this security staple and how to glean the best out of it for your strategy. A Brief History of NIST CSF “The full maximum NIST...
Cybersecurity
Compliance
NIST
Increasing Your Business’ Cyber Maturity with Fortra
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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...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Cybersecurity
Compliance
Managed Security Services
Security Configuration Management
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10 Mistakes in Cybersecurity and How to Avoid Them

By Katrina Thompson on Mon, 09/11/2023
It's easy to rest on our laurels. Prevent a few breaches – or go long enough without one – and you start to feel invincible. While our efforts are certainly laudable, we can't get too comfortable. As defenders, we always need to be on the hunt for what we've missed and ways to do better. Here are ten common cybersecurity mistakes that crop up (and...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
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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...
Managed Security Services
Working with a Reliable Partner for Cybersecurity Success
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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...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Managed Security Services
Security Configuration Management
The CIA Debate: Which is the Most Important?
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The CIA Debate: Which is the Most Important?

By Anastasios Arampatzis on Mon, 08/21/2023
The Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) Triad is a crucial information security model that guides and assesses how an organization manages data during storage, transmission, and processing. Each component of the triad plays a vital role in maintaining information security: Confidentiality means that data should not be accessed...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Immutability: The Importance of Change
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Security Immutability: The Importance of Change

By Tyler Reguly on Mon, 08/14/2023
A few years ago, I wrote about the importance of security immutability. More specifically, I discussed how important it is that your environment be unchangeable in order to ensure that it remains secure. As I looked back on the article, I found it rather amusing that the article was published 4 years ago, but that feels like a lifetime ago. In the...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Configuration Management
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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 (NERC CIP), the...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Tripwire Enterprise: Five ‘Other’ Things You Should Know
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Tripwire Enterprise: Five ‘Other’ Things You Should Know

By Faisal Parkar on Thu, 08/10/2023
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 member of the IT team in...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Configuration Management
Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product
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Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product

By Jeff Moline on Thu, 07/27/2023
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 to research a...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Configuration Management
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Using MFT to Solve Your Cloud Data Challenges: 5 Key Takeaways

By Tripwire Guest Authors on Wed, 07/19/2023
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 implementing a Managed...
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
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. Managed service providers...
Compliance
CIS Controls
FISMA
GDPR
HIPAA
NERC CIP
NIST
PCI DSS
SOX
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 resources such as articles,...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Journeys: From Change Management to Compliance
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Security Journeys: From Change Management to Compliance

By Chris Hudson on Wed, 05/17/2023
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 when analysts and...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
File Integrity & Change Monitoring