Resources

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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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PCI DSS Resource Toolkit

PCI DSS Resources for Seamless Compliance The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is one of the most widely applied regulatory compliance standards, meaning thousands of organizations can benefit from streamlining their compliance programs to avoid audit fines and protect cardholder data. Fortra’s Tripwire is an authority on how to achieve continuous, automated compliance and...
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Insider Insights for the PCI DSS 4.0 Transition

Is your organization ready for the new PCI DSS 4.0 Standard? If you’re already compliant with the most recent version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), you’ve probably already begun transitioning to version 4.0 ahead of the upcoming deadline. To help you make the journey easier and more straightforward, Fortra’s Tripwire gathered strategic implementation advice from...
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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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PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance

Maintaining compliance is a difficult job—both in scope and in practical application. Organizations need to comply with a vast array of regulations, and the number is constantly increasing. Compliance is consistently tightening; businesses and financial institutions now have to learn and dive into the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 4.0 requirements as the implementation...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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Five Tips for NERC CIP Audits

Meeting NERC CIP compliance is a challenge that keeps industrial controls systems (ICS) operators up at night. If organizations fail their audits, the NERC organization can levy large fines and require that extensive remediation work be done to bring systems back into compliance, leading to lost productivity and revenue. NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation), a part of ERO,...
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Essential PCI DSS v4.0 Transition Checklist

The proliferation of online transactions isn’t the only reason the PCI Council created the new 4.0 standard. Recent years have also seen increasingly sophisticated methods among cybercriminals, a surge in cloud use, and the rise of contactless payments. This spurred the need for an updated set of PCI DSS requirements, which were released in March 2022 and will become mandatory in March 2024 for...