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What Cybersecurity Pros Think of Zero Trust Today

Zero trust isn’t a new model, but its influence on the cybersecurity industry has strengthened over time since 1994. Zero trust became especially top-of-mind a few years ago when remote work and cloud services took off, prompting organizational leaders to rethink the way they enforced cybersecurity controls in an increasingly perimeter-less world. Is zero trust just another cybersecurity buzzword...
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10 Common Security Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them

Is your organization using default security settings, or do you have a security configuration management (SCM) program in place to ensure your configurations are as secure as possible? Misconfigurations are a leading cause of unauthorized access and security breaches, creating entry points for hackers in servers, websites, software, and cloud infrastructure. The Open Worldwide Application Security...
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2023 Zero Trust Security Report

The concept of Zero Trust is quickly gaining momentum among enterprise IT security teams, with 87 percent saying their organizations have zero trust access in place and projects underway or planned. The 2023 Zero Trust Security Report reveals how enterprises are implementing zero trust security in their organizations, including key drivers, adoption trends, technologies, investments, and benefits...
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Multi-Cloud Security Best Practice Guide

When you opt to use multiple cloud providers, you’re implementing a multi-cloud strategy. This practice is increasingly common, and can refer to mixing SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) offerings as well as public cloud environments that fall under the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) category. The most common public cloud environments today are Amazon Web Services...
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A Tripwire Zero Trust Reference Architecture

The concept of Zero Trust Architecture is fairly straightforward. Networks and systems have been traditionally designed with the assumption that everybody inside a defined perimeter can be trusted and that everybody outside that perimeter is hostile. With that assumption, the idea of building an impenetrable wall around that perimeter makes perfect sense. Over time, and as technology has advanced...
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Understanding Your Attack Surface: The First Step in Risk-based Security Intelligence

As chief information security officer (CISO), it’s now a job requirement to effectively communicate with your non-technical C-suite and board of directors—preferably not just after there’s been a breach. This is the first in a series of executive white papers designed to share strategies for reducing your attack surface risk as well as how to clearly and objectively communicate your overall security posture to non-technical executives. Download this white paper and learn about: The definition of “attack surface” — and risks associated Design goals of attack surface analytics What non-technical C-suite executives and board members want
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The Changing Role of the CISO

The chief information security officer, or CISO, is essential to the smooth and safe operation of any large organization. Over the past few years, though, the scope and scale of the CISO’s task has increased markedly. No longer simply a head of IT security, the CISO is responsible for a far wider range of cyber defenses and protective measures that extend well beyond the organization’s perimeter...
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Six Security Controls to Prevent Your Cloud from Getting Hacked

There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle cybersecurity for you. The truth is, cloud providers use a “shared responsibility model”. They protect underlying Cloud infrastructure, but leave protection of Cloud-deployed assets and data up to you. To help meet this need, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has created the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy. This...
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Tripwire State of Industrial Cybersecurity Report

As news of cyberthreats targeting industrial environments like energy utilities and manufacturing plants continues to surface, Tripwire surveyed security professionals who work in these industries to understand how industrial organizations are protecting themselves. The survey findings revealed insights on the security professionals’ levels of concern, investment in cybersecurity, and how they are...
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Survey: Securing Public Cloud Infrastructure

Do you have a centralized view of your organization’s security posture and policy compliance across all cloud accounts? A Tripwire and Dimensional Research survey conducted in 2021 found that only 21 percent of security professionals could answer “yes.” The survey included more than 300 cybersecurity professionals who are directly responsible for the security of public cloud infrastructure within...
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Securing AWS Cloud Management Configurations

Amazon has captured nearly half of the cloud market making it a prime target for attacks. When AWS accounts are compromised, the go-to payload is often cryptocurrency mining where attackers make money using stolen CPU cycles that get billed to the victim's account. Fortunately, there is guidance from the Center for Internet Security (CIS). In 2016, CIS launched the Amazon Web Services Foundations...
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Industrial Cybersecurity Experts Share 14 of Their Biggest Tips and Predictions

The task of building and running an effective cybersecurity program is a major challenge for any complex organization, but those in charge of industrial control systems (ICS) have even more to figure out than their strictly-IT counterparts. How can industrial organizations overcome the cybersecurity skills gap? What about the increasingly-difficult endeavor of bringing the IT and OT sides of the...
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6 Expert Industrial Cybersecurity Tips for CISOs

Digital attacks are a growing concern for industrial control system (ICS) security professionals. In a 2019 survey conducted by Dimensional Research , 88 percent of respondents told Tripwire that they were concerned about the threat of a digital attack. An even greater percentage (93 percent) attributed their concerns to the possibility of an attack producing a shutdown or downtime. Other survey...
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Implementing Cloud Security Best Practices

Cybersecurity professionals the world over share common cloud security concerns like risk management, configuration security, and cloud compliance. As organizations expand further into the cloud, there continues to be an influx of simple mistakes that can expose organizations to significant security, privacy, and regulatory risks. Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to understand what...
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Industrial Cybersecurity is Essential

Don’t believe there are real cyberthreats to your operations network and control systems? Data shows otherwise. Better foundational industrial cybersecurity practices can help prevent disruption to your operations and financial risk to your bottom line.
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Solid Foundations for Cloud Security: Houses Built on Sand or Rock

Moving mission critical applications to the cloud provides a whole host of benefits but it also means trusting cloud providers with key aspects of security and compliance. This paper provides tools you can use to evaluate the security and compliance offerings of cloud computing partners. It also describes how Tripwire’s solutions can be used to build and deploy a rock-solid security foundation for...
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Executing an Efficient Cloud Security Strategy

How do organizations execute an efficient cloud security strategy and find the right cloud security tools? Tripwire asked a range of cloud security experts to share their thoughts on some of the key challenges regarding secure cloud storage and cloud computing security.
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18 Expert Tips for Effective and Secure Cloud Migration

Organizations are increasingly migrating to the cloud to process their IT resources. Gartner predicts that cloud data centers will process 92 percent of workloads by 2020 1 , while Cisco forecasts cloud workloads to increase 3.2x in that span of time 2 . Under the Shared Responsibility Model, migrating organizations need to ensure security in the cloud by taking adequate measures to protect their...
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Cloud Control Buyer's Guide

Introduction The world of IT is moving to the cloud for flexibility, on-demand computing resources, and speed just to name a few benefits. Market data varies but estimates of cloud usage show that in the range of 20–25% of overall compute workloads are operating in public cloud environments today, with that expected to grow to 50% over the next 5–10 years. However, most organizations haven’t moved...