A key security challenge is finding and rooting out malware that has already become embedded on key assets. Organizations today have myriad threat intelligence sources to leverage. However, simply getting the intelligence into your organization is not enough.Unless you have a way to operationalize myriad threat intelligence sources to make it actionable and useful, threat intelligence just...

On a mission to find a service that protects your organization's data while achieving regulatory compliance simultaneously? Discover best practices for cybersecurity managed services that provide advanced protection.As managed services become more popular — and essential, for many — the world is on track to funnel 77 percent of cybersecurity spending...

Meeting cybersecurity compliance requirements is absolutely critical to the success of organizations and agencies. Otherwise, they face steep audit fines and an increased risk of cyberattacks. And there are usually several regulatory requirements to be met simultaneously, putting a huge strain on organizations trying to enforce compliance manually. The 2023 Compliance Trends Report found that 80...

File integrity monitoring (FIM) is the cybersecurity process that monitors and detects changes in your environment to alert you to threats and helps you remediate them. FIM was first introduced in 1997 when Gene Kim launched Tripwire and its “Change Audit” solution. Just a few years later, Change Audit became FIM, which worked with the 12 security controls identified in Visa’s Cardholder...

File integrity monitoring (FIM, and often referred to as “change audit”) was around long before its early reference in the ever-evolving PCI standard. So, here we are years later… Where is FIM now? Is it still relevant or important? Does it really protect data and improve security? The answers, in order, are: FIM isn’t going away — in fact, it’s now part of almost every IT compliance regulation...