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Tripwire Cloud Deployment Services

Cloud computing has transformed business and government at an extraordinary pace by delivering business-supporting technology more efficiently than ever. The cloud has changed the way IT thinks about how to design and deliver computing technology applications and, according to Gartner, by 2015 10% of enterprise IT security will be delivered in the cloud. What if enterprises...
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Tripwire Resident Engineers

The cybersecurity skills gap can leave many organizations without adequate staffing for the operation of their security tools. High turnover rates can also cause an organization to lose essential knowledge when team members leave who were familiar with the tools. To complicate matters further, the pandemic is driving the need for temporary cybersecurity support as agencies...
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Tripwire’s Solutions for Automated, Continuous PCI Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was created to help organizations that process credit card payments secure the cardholder environment to prevent credit card fraud, cyber threats, and other security vulnerabilities. The latest version, 4.0, provides specific security guidance on handling, processing, transmitting, and storing credit card data to...
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Meeting FISMA SI-7 with Tripwire Integrity Monitoring

To enhance your Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance grade, you must implement one of the most challenging controls in NIST SP 800-53: the Controls, Family: System Information & Integrity (SI) 7 requirement. SI-7 states that organizations must employ automated and centrally managed integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized change. This level...
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Cloud Data Security: Implementing Smarter Cloud Security

The trend of mass migration to the cloud brings benefits like lower operating costs, easier deployability, and the flexibility of an elastic environment. However, it’s crucial to understand that the responsibility to secure your cloud infrastructure still falls on your organization. Cloud providers allow organizations to take advantage of their infrastructure, resulting in a...
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Automating FISMA Compliance with Tripwire Security Configuration Management

FISMA requires federal agencies, and by extension, the foundations, educational institutions, organizations that receive federal funds as well as the contractors that do business with them, to develop, document, and implement information security programs to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data and systems that support government operations and...
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Payment Processor for Businesses

As a recognized leader in the payment processing sector, this company offers its clients hundreds of secure payment methods across multiple platforms, around the globe. Onan average day it processes tens of millions of mobile, online and in-store transactions in 100+ currencies. After experiencing a security incident that was quickly contained, the company took the opportunity...
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PCI 4.0: The wider meanings of the new Standard

Image The new PCI DSS Standard, version 4.0, contains all the steps, best practices, and explanations required for full compliance.  In fact, even an organization that does not process cardholder data could follow the PCI Standard to implement a robust cybersecurity program for any of its important data. In our series about how the...
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What you need to know about PCI 4.0: Requirements 10, 11 and 12

Image As we continue our review of the 12 Requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0, one has to stop and consider, is it possible to have a favorite section of a standard? After all, most guidance documents, as well as regulations are seen as tedious distractions from the importance of getting the job done. However, depending on a person’s...
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What you need to know about PCI 4.0: Requirements 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9

Image In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed the first four sections of the new PCI standards. As we continue our examination of PCI DSS version 4.0, we will consider what organizations will need to do in order to successfully transition and satisfy this update. Requirements 5 through 9 are organized under two categories: Maintain a...
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What you need to know about PCI 4.0: Requirements 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Image The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has released its first update to their Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) since 2018.  The new standard, version 4.0, is set to generally go into effect by 2024, but there are suggested updates that are not going to be required until a year after that.  This, of course, creates...
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PCI DSS 4.0 and ISO 27001 – the dynamic duo

Image It’s not often we can say this, but 2022 is shaping up to be an exciting time in information governance, especially for those interested in compliance and compliance frameworks. We started the year in eager anticipation of the new version of the international standard for information security management systems, ISO 27001:2022,...
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PCI DSS 4.0 is Here: What you Need to Consider

Image The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a benchmark with tenure in the industry, with the first version being introduced in 2004. The PCI DSS was unique when it was introduced because of its prescriptive nature and its focus on protecting cardholder data. Cybersecurity is a changing landscape, and...
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What Are the Benefits of Adopting the Cloud in Industrial Cybersecurity?

Image Cloud adoption has come a long way from its early days where corporate executives questioned the stewardship of their data. The initial suspicions of “where’s my data” have been laid to rest, as administrative tools and contractual obligations have emerged to give better visibility to, and accountability of, data custodianship....
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How Achieving Compliance with PCI DSS Can Help Meet GDPR Mandates

Image Data security and privacy are today a prime focus for most organizations globally. While there have been several regulations and standards introduced to improve data security, the evolving landscape makes it challenging for organizations to stay compliant. For many organizations, GDPR and PCI DSS are the first topics that come...
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CIS Control 09: Email and Web Browser Protections

Image Web browsers and email clients are used to interact with external and internal assets. Both applications can be used as a point of entry within an organization. Users of these applications can be manipulated using social engineering attacks. A successful social engineering attack needs to convince users to interact with...
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Tripwire Survey: 98% of Security Professionals Say Multi-Cloud Environments Pose Greater Security Challenges

PORTLAND, Ore. - July 8, 2021 - Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today announced the results of a new research report that evaluated cloud security practices across enterprise environments in 2021. Conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research last month, the survey evaluated the...
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PCI DSS 4.0 Is Coming – Are You Ready?

Image Ransomware today is a billion-dollar industry. It’s crippled industries like healthcare. In 2017, for instance, WannaCry brought much of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service to its knees using the EternalBlue exploit. It was just a few weeks later when the NotPetya ransomware strain leveraged that same vulnerability to...
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Steps for PCI DSS Gap Analysis

Image Complying with Standards drawn by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council can be complicated and time-consuming. But, with a PCI DSS Gap Analysis, the process becomes a lot easier, streamlined, and less exhaustive. PCI Gap Analysis is the first step towards the Compliance process. The assessment provides details on...