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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 5, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 5, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 09/12/2022
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 Affects Zyxel NAS Devices —...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
VERT Research
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 29, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 29, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 09/05/2022
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 Vulnerability That Could Impact...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
VERT Research
Defense and Development: Key points from The Complete Guide to Application Security for PCI-DSS
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Defense and Development: Key points from The Complete Guide to Application Security for PCI-DSS

By Tripwire Guest Authors on Wed, 08/31/2022
The increasing popularity of online payment systems results from the world’s gradual transition to a cashless and contactless digital economy — an economy, projected in a recent Huawei white paper, to be worth $23 trillion by 2025. With digital commerce emerging as the largest segment in the projected $8.49 trillion global digital payments market in...
Compliance
PCI DSS
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 22, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 22, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/29/2022
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 VMware Tools VMware this...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
VERT Research
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/22/2022
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 Drops Fileless Cryptominer...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
VERT Research
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022

By Andrew Swoboda on Tue, 08/16/2022
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 from its servers for years ...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
VERT Research
A 5 Step Checklist for Complying with PCI DSS 4.0
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A 5 Step Checklist for Complying with PCI DSS 4.0

By Tripwire Guest Authors on Mon, 08/15/2022
In March 2022, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was updated with a number of new and modified requirements. Since their last update in 2018, there has been a rapid increase in the use of cloud technologies, contactless payments have become the norm, and the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a massive growth in e-commerce and online...
Compliance
PCI DSS
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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...
Cloud Security
Product Video

AAA: Getting Roadside Assistance from Tripwire

Mon, 08/15/2022
Tim Masey, Director of Enterprise Information Security at AAA, shared his company’s PCI journey: beginning with a small implementation of Tripwire, then running into roadblocks by Management for the expansion of products, and eventually moving forward with the implementation of Tripwire’s policy driven dashboards, rules and tasks for over 500 servers.
Compliance
PCI DSS
Guide

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...
Compliance
PCI DSS
SOX
Guide

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 ...
Cloud Security
Guide

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 many of the most...
Security Configuration Management
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Guide

Threat Prevention is Foundational

How proper foundational controls help block today’s advanced threats
Cybersecurity
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Security Configuration Management
Guide

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...
Cloud Security
Guide

Survey: Securing Public Cloud Infrastructure

Do you have a centralized view of your organization’s security posture and policy compliance across all cloud accounts? A Tripwire and Dimensional Research survey conducted in 2021 found that only 21 percent of security professionals could answer “yes.” The survey included more than 300 cybersecurity professionals who are directly responsible for the security of public cloud infrastructure within...
Cloud Security
Guide

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 security and...
Security Configuration Management
Guide

Securing AWS Cloud Management Configurations

Amazon has captured nearly half of the cloud market making it a prime target for attacks. When AWS accounts are compromised, the go-to payload is often cryptocurrency mining where attackers make money using stolen CPU cycles that get billed to the victim's account. Fortunately, there is guidance from the Center for Internet Security (CIS). In 2016, CIS launched the Amazon Web Services Foundations...
Cloud Security
Guide

PCI DSS and the CIS Controls

Benchmarks, Standards, Frameworks and Regulations: What’s the Difference? The majority of IT security guidance to industry can be placed into one of these categories: benchmarks, standards, frameworks and regulations. Most address specific security issues and offer advice based on experience, collaborated information, authorities and activities (best practices) which have proven effective. They...
Compliance
PCI DSS
Guide

Meeting Multiple Compliance Objectives Simultaneously With the CIS Controls

The CIS Controls are a set of recommendations comprised of controls and benchmarks. They are intended to serve as a cybersecurity “best practice” for preventing damaging attacks. The recommendations are meant to provide a holistic approach to cybersecurity and to be effective across all industries. Adhering to them serves as an effective foundation for any organization’s security and compliance...
Compliance
CIS Controls
FISMA
GDPR
HIPAA
NIST
PCI DSS
Guide

Implementing Cloud Security Best Practices

Cybersecurity professionals the world over share common cloud security concerns like risk management, configuration security, and cloud compliance. As organizations expand further into the cloud, there continues to be an influx of simple mistakes that can expose organizations to significant security, privacy, and regulatory risks. Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to understand what...
Cloud Security