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Tripwire Managed Services

Today’s IT and InfoSec Executives are challenged with an ever changing cybersecurity landscape. When combined with the proliferation of new sources of information every day, it can be increasing difficult to maintain and operate technology solutions that are designed protect the organization from risk. Many IT organizations are struggling to revise processes to establish governance practices, but...
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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 of visibility can be...
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Compliance and Integrity Monitoring for EMR Systems

The value of electronic medical record (EMR) systems is immense. These digital records are designed to be available anytime and anywhere, connecting healthcare providers with patient data. EMRs are a central repository of patient medical histories, medications, diagnoses, immunization dates, allergies, lab results and radiology images. With this accurate and up to date patient information...
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Department of Defense Overview: Integrated Security Controls to Protect Your Organization

Tripwire provides an integrated suite of solutions to help solve security challenges facing organizations within today’s Department of Defense. Tripwire tools have been used within government and military organizations in both tactical and non tactical environments to ensure system hardening through security configuration management, real time threat detection with continuous monitoring, and data...
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Bridging the IT/OT Cybersecurity Gap

With notable industrial cyber events on the rise, the 2020s are shaping up to be a challenging time for operational technology (OT) operators concerned with the safety, security, and compliance of their operational technology networks. To protect their OT environments, everyone from plant managers to CISOs is facing increased pressure to deploy effective cybersecurity solutions. However...
Case Study

Tripwire and Astro Making Best Practices a Daily Show

Assessing and managing vulnerabilities is a core cybersecurity practice, but it can put a heavy strain on IT security and operations teams. In many cases, introducing vulnerability management as a service is what’s necessary to overcome the challenge of accumulating vulnerabilities across complex IT environments—especially when time and resources are limited. This was the case for one mid-size U.S...
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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, government...
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 cybersecurity program in...
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What Are the Benefits of Adopting the Cloud in Industrial Cybersecurity?

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. Even the capabilities of technology professionals have been enhanced...
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What Is FIM (File Integrity Monitoring)?

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 respond to this dynamism by investing in asset discovery and secure...
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CIS Control 09: Email and Web Browser Protections

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 malicious content. A successful attack could give an attacker an entry point...
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Delivering Electrons, Generating Data Lakes, and the Security & Privacy Considerations of Running a Modern Industrial Organization

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 design. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cMR1D4nastJLUDE4VUXYm?si...
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Tripwire Eases Government Resource Constraints with New FedRAMP-Certified Managed Services Solution

Tripwire ExpertOps Federal reduces both the workload and complexity of managing an agency’s critical security controls. PORTLAND, Ore. – August 3, 2020 – Tripwire, Inc. , a global cybersecurity solutions provider protecting the world’s leading organizations, today announced the launch of Tripwire® ExpertOps℠ Federal a FedRAMP-certified managed services solution that augments the resources needed...
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Design & Implementation of OEM ICS Cybersecurity Frameworks: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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 continues to hover above 150 days on average . The SANS Institute via the...
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Prioritizing Changes: File Integrity Monitoring Tools & Best Practices

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 enterprise cyberthreats...
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Cybersecurity in Education (K-12) with the CIS Controls

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 to click on readily available documentation from Microsoft or Google...
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Quick Guide to Modern Security Configuration Management

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 reliability of (Tripwire...
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Forensics in the Cloud: What You Need to Know

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 entire infrastructure for a computing resource in three different cloud...
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Managed Vulnerability Management? Yes, You Read That Right

The importance of a mature vulnerability management program can’t be overstated. File integrity monitoring (FIM) and security configuration management (SCM) might be the bedrock of a strong cybersecurity program, but they can only go so far. Scanning for vulnerabilities needs to be a foundational part of your program, too. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) already knows this; that's why it...