Resources
Guide

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.
Cloud Security
Guide

Meet the Women Protecting Your Data

For every woman in an S&P 1500 chief executive role, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James—meaning there are more Williams than women in those roles. This gender gap also spans most STEM careers, cybersecurity included. Women make up only 20 percent of the global cybersecurity industry. If there’s any silver lining to be found in that stat, it’s that the number has nearly...
Guide

Detailed Mapping of the Tripwire and CIS Controls

The goal of the Center for Internet Security Controls is to protect critical assets, infrastructure and information by strengthening your organization's defensive posture through continuous, automated protection and monitoring of your IT infrastructure. The strength of the Controls is that it reflects the combined knowledge of actual attacks and effective defenses from experts in many...
Industrial Control Systems
Guide

Integrity: The True Measure of Enterprise Security

Federal cybersecurity integrity is often defined as the incorruptibility of data (as part of the CIA triad), and file integrity monitoring (FIM), a control which has become a compliance requirement in standards such as FISMA and PCI DSS. Read the full white paper to learn more.
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Guide

Communicating Cybersecurity to Boards and Executives: A Workbook to Help Build Cybersecurity Literacy

We’ve all heard, “it’s not a matter of if you’ll be breached, but when.” If a breach occurs, is your organization prepared to detect it quickly? Now more than ever, corporate executives and boards are asking for assurance that the organization and its sensitive data is adequately protected. This cybersecurity self-assessment is derived from the Cyber-Risk and Oversight Handbook developed by the...
Cybersecurity
Guide

Closing the Integrity Gap with NIST's Cybersecurity Framework

When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it had released its new Cybersecurity Framework in 2014, it appeared on the surface to be just one more option for organizations looking to develop a cohesive and effective cyber risk management strategy. Indeed, there are dozens of choices available and organizations have been all over the map when it comes to deciding...
Compliance
Guide

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...
Cloud Security
Guide

How to Achieve Compliance with the NIS Directive

Network and information systems (NIS) and the essential functions they support play a vital role in society from ensuring the supply of electricity, water, oil and gas to the provisioning of healthcare and the safety of passenger and freight transport. In addition, computerized systems are performing vital safety-related functions designed to protect human lives. For example, such systems are...
Compliance
Guide

9 Steps for Maturing Beyond Checkbox Compliance

A common mistake many organizations make is approaching cybersecurity as a series of actions taken in order to check the right compliance boxes. If this sounds familiar, it’s likely that you’ve witnessed something similar to the cycle of crisis-driven audit preparation, a suspenseful audit, remediating based on those findings, and waiting until the next hurried audit preparation phase returns. ...
Compliance
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Case Study

Tripwire helps Verifone ensure secure operations around the world

San Jose, California-based Verifone is a leading enabler of electronic payment transactions and point-of-sale services. With over 29 million devices and terminals deployed across more than 150 countries, Verifone’s clients include some of the world’s best- known retail brands, financial institutions and payment providers.Delivering the services necessary for Verifone’s employees to support the...
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Case Study

Why This U.S. Military Agency Chose Tripwire Enterprise

Ensuring the cybersecurity of the U.S. Military is a unique responsibility with unique compliance requirements across a wide variety of platforms and systems. As a key component of the Federal Government’s overall data and system integrity protections, meeting the Defense Information Systems Administration Security Technical Implementation Guide (DISA STIG) file integrity monitoring (FIM)...
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Case Study

How WFEC Brings Power to Half a Million Americans with Tripwire Security

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) is an electric generation and transmission cooperative founded in 1941 in Anadarko, Oklahoma. WFEC operates and maintains transmission lines, substations, and switch stations, delivering renewable energy resources to rural Americans in Oklahoma and New Mexico.Its energy resources include a coal-based power plant, natural gas units, wind resources and...
Case Study

Payment Processor for Businesses

As a recognized leader in the payment processing sector, this company offers its clients hundreds of secure payment methods across multiple platforms, around the globe. Onan average day it processes tens of millions of mobile, online and in-store transactions in 100+ currencies.After experiencing a security incident that was quickly contained, the company took the opportunity to revamp its entire...
Compliance
PCI DSS
Case Study

Rabobank: A Multinational Banking and Financial Services Company

Netherlands-based Rabobank is a leader in sustainability-oriented banking and has been listed by Global Finance magazine as one of the world’s ten safest banks. Rabobank’s thousands of servers—located in several dozen datacenters distributed around the globe—are critical to every aspect of the bank’s operations.Each system, typically running either Microsoft Windows, Linux or Solaris, is...
Case Study

Tripwire Enterprise Detects Solarwinds Vulnerability

2021 has been a pivotal year for cybersecurity and the emphasis that organizations have placed on its importance. Unfortunately, this push for heightened cybersecurity is reactive by nature, and is the result of a series of increasingly complicated and dangerous cyberattacks. Attacks have been successfully executed on institutions ranging from social media sites to utility plants and are projected...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Testing Banking Website Security: What You Need to Know
Case Study

Major Banking Institution Case Study

This multinational banking institution has been around for over 100 years, dedicated to helping a customer base of over 20 million people in countries all over the world.In order to serve such a large customer base and keep financial services at competitive rates, they’ve taken advantage of the latest in cloud technology to reduce the operating costs of their IT infrastructure and outward-facing...
Case Study

How Two Leading Energy Companies Protect Their Systems with Tripwire

Tripwire is best known for delivering industry-leading security solutions within enterprise IT, but did you know Tripwire is an established leader in OT environments as well? There’s more need for OT security now than ever, with energy production and distribution systems experiencing an increasing risk of cyberattack as they become remotely accessible via standard internet protocols. The energy...
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State of Minnesota

The State of Minnesota’s Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) was established under the guidance of the Governor and the State Chief Information Officer, with a charter to deliver effective, efficient and economical government solutions. Since 2007, The State of Minnesota’s Office of Enterprise Technology has worked to develop a comprehensive enterprise security program that protects the privacy,...
Case Study

Two Large Financial Services Organizations

To remain competitive, organizations must be able to quickly adapt to support volatile business demands. For IT organizations, the unprecedented speed that images can be deployed into the cloud also brings complexity. Until the initial baseline of an image is captured, there is the potential for unauthorized modifications to pass undetected. Even without malicious intent, a seemingly insignificant...