Guide
Cybersecurity for Work-From-Home Tools
This guide covers the biggest challenges securing work-from-home tools and three actionable steps you can take to overcome them.
Datasheet
How Tripwire Helps Control Change
A standard enterprise IT environment is typically composed of widely disparate hardware from multiple vendors running a variety of operating systems and can be spread across multiple datacenters, worksites and the cloud. Because of this growing distribution of IT assets and ever-growing sensitivity of data assets, there is an increased need for adherence to industry standards,...
Guide
Navigating Industrial Cybersecurity: A Field Guide
Nearly every aspect of modern life depends on industrial control systems (ICS) operating as expected. As ICS devices become increasingly connected, they also become increasingly vulnerable. By and large, commercial and critical infrastructure industrial orgs are underprepared for the digital convergence of their IT and OT environments. ICS operators need to get a robust...
Blog
What Are the Benefits of Adopting the Cloud in Industrial Cybersecurity?
By Joe Pettit on Tue, 03/01/2022
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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....
Blog
What Is FIM (File Integrity Monitoring)?
By David Bisson on Tue, 01/11/2022
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Change is prolific in organizations’ IT environments. Hardware assets change. Software programs change. Configuration states change. Some of these modifications are authorized insofar as they occur during an organization’s regular patching cycle, while others cause concern by popping up unexpectedly.
Organizations commonly...
Blog
CIS Control 09: Email and Web Browser Protections
By Andrew Swoboda on Wed, 10/20/2021
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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...
Blog
Delivering Electrons, Generating Data Lakes, and the Security & Privacy Considerations of Running a Modern Industrial Organization
By Editorial Staff on Thu, 09/30/2021
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In this episode, Patrick Miller, Founder of Ampere Industrial Security, discusses what utilities and other industrial companies need to consider when it comes to the goldmines of data they're collecting from their machines and customers. He also explains why security and privacy needs to be incorporated in these operations by...
Press Release
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...
Blog
Design & Implementation of OEM ICS Cybersecurity Frameworks: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Editorial Staff on Sun, 07/05/2020
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The cyber threat landscape today continues to pose a myriad of unique challenges. This is especially the case for industrial organizations due to factors such as aging equipment, poor design or implementation, skills gaps and a lack of visibility. These shortcomings are exacerbated by the mean time to breach detection, which...
Blog
Prioritizing Changes: File Integrity Monitoring Tools & Best Practices
Tue, 06/30/2020
What does file integrity mean?
There’s not enough time in the day to investigate every system change, which means you need laser-sharp focus to quickly find the greatest risks to your business. However, the ever-evolving capabilities of cyber adversaries—coupled with the dynamic nature of corporate networks—makes security prioritization increasingly difficult.
To combat...
Blog
Cybersecurity in Education (K-12) with the CIS Controls
By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/13/2020
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Why is cybersecurity important to Education?
Acknowledging recent reports of ransomware targeting educational institutions, it is no wonder that there have also been articles that attempt to lure in readers with “free” tools. What is disappointing is that these “free” tools are little more than marketing pieces that direct you...
Blog
Quick Guide to Modern Security Configuration Management
Fri, 01/31/2020
Security configuration management is the cybersecurity process of ensuring systems are properly configured to meet security and compliance standards, reducing cyber risk in the process. The practice of detecting and remediating misconfigurations combines elements of integrity monitoring, configuration validation, vulnerability assessment, and system remediation.
"The...
Blog
Forensics in the Cloud: What You Need to Know
By Tripwire Guest Authors on Tue, 08/20/2019
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Cloud computing has transformed the IT industry, as services can now be deployed in a fraction of the time that it used to take. Scalable computing solutions have spawned large cloud computing companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
With a click of a button, personnel can create or reset...
Blog
Apple To Add New Security Alerts Following iCloud Hack
Fri, 09/05/2014
In response to the recent debacle that exposed multiple celebrities by hackers breaking into their personal Apple accounts and leaking private images on the web, Apple has stated it plans to launch additional security alerts warning users of possible intrusion.
Blog
Six Tips to Improve Your Router’s Security
By Craig Young on Fri, 02/21/2014
To minimize wireless attacks, here are six basic router tips anyone should include in their security strategies/training protocols.