A vulnerability management program should provide a series of metrics that outline the vulnerability risk to the organization and how the risk posture is trending. In addition to this, reports should be provided which show system owners which vulnerabilities pose the greatest risk to the organization and how to remediate them. This report outlines recommendations for vulnerability management...

Return on investment on IT security infrastructure purchases (solutions and products) has traditionally been hard to quantify. However, there are some compelling aspects of securing an organization’s infrastructure that can be identified and quantified. This discipline will continue to evolve as organizations focus on managing and balancing their security expenses and strive to control the...

Vulnerability and Risk Analysis Measuring and managing the security risk associated with information and information technology remains one of the most challenging and debated problems faced by all levels of an organization. While scoring standards designed to assist with solving this problem have been developed over the past decade, a select few have accomplished this and those that have are...

As global events have led to many of us working from home, it has become more important more than ever to ensure your organisation’s network is protected and secure. Cyber Essentials is an important information assurance scheme that you can use to ensure this is the case. If you are looking to meet the standards of Cyber Essentials, Tripwire® Enterprise, Tripwire IP360™, Tripwire Log Center™, and...

Vulnerability Management For The Cloud Tripwire® IP360™, our proactive vulnerability management solution, helps your IT security organization protect data and systems in corporate and cloud networks from vulnerabilities exploited by cyberthreats. Our solution provides comprehensive endpoint and network intelligence, and then applies advanced analytics to prioritize vulnerabilities. It flags the...

There’s not enough time in the day to investigate every system change and remediate every vulnerability. Ever-evolving capabilities of cyber adversaries—coupled with the dynamic nature of corporate networks— makes security prioritization increasingly difficult. With Tripwire® Enterprise and Tripwire IP360™ managed service offerings, you can minimize the amount of time you spend addressing high...

Keeping sensitive data and assets safe is the goal of regulatory cybersecurity frameworks such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Information Assurance Standard. Mitigating cyber threats and ensuring the development of a secure national information and communications infrastructure and cyberspace is a strategic priority for the UAE. To this end, the UAE Information Assurance (IA) Standard acts as a...

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The financial services market is a key target for cyber criminals given potential financial rewards. Their motives can also be political since financial systems are critical infrastructure for society. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the regulatory body that oversees financial services companies licensed by or operating in the state, has been closely observing the ever-...

Changes occur nearly every second in the typical network. These changes most commonly include those made to group memberships, which ports are open, software patches, and a variety of other categories. That is precisely why it is so important to remain compliant with standards that regulate change monitoring, such as North American Energy Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection...

Tripwire® State Analyzer automates change alerts. It works in tandem with Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire IP360™ to provide smart alerting and automation in critical security areas that are not manageable by traditional system state monitoring approaches. Originally developed for customers with high security requirements in the electric generation and transmission utilities industry, its high...

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) maintains comprehensive reliability standards that define requirements for planning and operating the bulk electric system (BES). Among these are the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards, which specify a minimum set of controls and processes for power generation and transmission companies to follow to ensure...

Get Safe and Compliant Keeping your organization safe and compliant is challenging and complex. Security is more effective when you have documented baselines for a system’s configuration, usually in the form of a security policy. These policies specify recommended or required system configurations, including applications, ports, services, and security basics. But ask yourself: How can I validate...

When you start a Tripwire® IP360™ scan, there are 11 tasks that run in background, and many of these tasks are influenced by other information. Details for each scan task Name Resolution During Name Resolution, the IP Addresses provided during Network Configuration are resolved to host names that are displayed during scanning and in scan reports. This is done using the DNS Servers configured for...

Tripwire® IP360™ is an enterprise class vulnerability and risk management solution that enables cost-effective reduction of cyber threat risk by focusing your remediation efforts on the highest risks and most critical assets. The solution is built upon a scalable architecture that delivers risk based vulnerability assessment with speed, reliability and accuracy along with the industry’s most...

Defending against attacks in today’s threat landscape is becoming increasingly difficult given the high rate of change on enterprise networks, the constantly evolving threat environment and the increased focus on internal and regulatory compliance. Organizations require a comprehensive view of security risk across the global enterprise network. While large quantities of data for security...