When should your security strategy include agent-based monitoring? It can be difficult to discern when and how to incorporate agents into your vulnerability management processes. There are several instances in which agent-based monitoring offers superior support and protection across your networks. But that doesn’t mean you need to opt for a 100 percent agent-based approach, either. There are...

The Tripwire® ExpertOpsSM Proxy Appliance is a secure and hardened platform that eliminates the need for customers to perform any type of operating system management. Tripwire’s appliance based approach reduces the level of effort and skills needed to maintain and operate network connections to Tripwire ExpertOps, all while maintaining a low-risk footprint. General System Overview The Tripwire...

Maximize the value of Tripwire® IP360™ by adding additional leverage to your valuable strategic business solution, and extend Tripwire IP360 to achieve better, faster and more cost effective vulnerability risk management and compliance. Many enterprise applications lack a native command line interface. This can be a challenge if you want to automate and integrate basic operations, which is a...

Understanding security risk on the global enterprise network is essential to comprehensive IT vulnerability management (VM). But there are several hurdles your VM program must overcome, like the high rate of change on enterprise networks, the constantly changing threat environment and increased focus on internal and regulatory compliance. The solution is Tripwire® IP360™, the leading vulnerability...

Vulnerability management solutions are only valuable when they help you prioritize your efforts effectively. Fortra’s Tripwire® IP360™ is an enterprise-class vulnerability management solution that enables cost-effective reduction of cyberthreat risk by focusing your remediation efforts on the highest risks and most critical assets. The solution is built upon a scalable architecture that delivers...

Many IT teams are facing challenging skills gaps or struggling with optimizing their cybersecurity software. It might be that your team is too small for their responsibilities, or that you’re finding it difficult to attract, train, and retain talent. Turnover is a common problem, with organizations and agencies often losing skilled individuals to new opportunities. Fortunately, strategically...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires all publicly held companies to establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting to reduce the possibility of corporate fraud. SOX is not specific on the types of controls that are required, but points to the COBIT framework to provide organizations’ guidance on their IT governance. The Challenge Change is ever occurring in your systems and...

With pressure on IT departments to remain lean and efficient, comply to policies and regulations, and also provide reliable 24/7 service, it is imperative that companies large and small adopt solutions and processes to ensure a known and trusted state at all times. With the reliance on technology to conduct business, interact with customers, and meet auditing requirements, “store doors” need to...

However, gaining this caliber of visibility can be challenging for many reasons, including: Standard IT solutions and scanning methods are typically incompatible with and unsafe for industrial networks » Traditional industrial asset inventory solutions often require hardware that can be costly, complex, and time consuming to deploy Many industrial networks are geographically isolated and/or air...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) by mandating procedures and controls to assure the public that critical and private information is controlled from loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. With few exceptions, an organization is subject to HIPAA if it exchanges data related to the health care...

Federal security managers expect that most federally run systems are actively engaging with FISMA compliance for protecting federal data and systems. However, as we all know, federal information does not remain only in federally operated systems. Data and IT systems connect via the Internet and other networks for business, operations and research. Information about citizens, banking and finance...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ( PCI DSS ) was created to help organizations that process credit card payments, secure the cardholder environment to prevent credit card fraud, cyber threats and other security vulnerabilities. The latest version, 4.0, provides specific security guidance on handling, processing, transmitting and storing credit card data to minimize the theft...

Controlling change and enforcing internal or external policies requires not only trusted change and compliance data, but the ability to quickly transform that data into relevant, meaningful information. Tripwire® Enterprise is known for its unparalleled ability to assess and validate configuration settings and manage configuration changes, but it’s also the most dependable source available for the...

Industrial automation and process control systems largely run our world. However, cyber risks to industrial networks, endpoints and control systems are on the rise and protecting highly specialized plant environments can be very challenging for industrial businesses and critical infrastructure. Cyber threats have been shown to come from simple employee or contractor error, malicious insiders or...

Companies need to expand their visibility into their organization’s security and compliance status. Unfortunately they are often stuck with multiple tools and system that makes things too complex. The integration between Tripwire Enterprise and ServiceNow creates a workflow for the smooth exchange of system change and security configuration state information with a wide variety of compliance...

Quickly and easily visualize the overall health of your IT environment with the right data and the business context around that data. Tripwire Enterprise offers the rich data, controls and policies, and Splunk provides the means to visualize the data in easy-to-implement dashboards. This will reduce the cycle-time of identifying vulnerabilities or security violations and reduce the mean-time-to-repair. Pick, choose and reuse dashboards and panels Easily view system state and vulnerability data from Tripwire Fast reporting and drill-down over large amounts of data Quickly detect, prioritize and investigate risk Launch Tripwire Enterprise in context on specific changes and policy tests.

Detect Change and Assess Compliance with Tripwire Enterprise Tripwire® Enterprise is the industry standard for integrity monitoring, change detection, and compliance validation. With Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can effectively baseline the asset configurations throughout their environment, and then detect any change—including detection in real time. Accurate and comprehensive change...

The Tripwire Enterprise Hardware Configuration Parameters document gives configuration guidance for deploying Tripwire Enterprise. This document gives requirements and recommendations for Small, Intermediate, and Enterprise deployments and such parameters as Usage, CPU type and size, Memory, Storage, OS, and Database.

Industrial control systems (ICS) are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks. The best way to protect your data is to segment your industrial environment into distinct security zones. The Tofino Xenon security appliance does just that. Customizable and rugged, it is the ideal solution for protecting your ICS for maximum uptime, safety, and productivity. Not only can it perform deep packet...

In a very real sense, IT security configurations are the proverbial “keys to the kingdom” when it comes to data protection and information security. They define system safeguards while balancing acceptable risk against the need for productivity. Hackers and attackers understand this balance all too well: the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report noted that 83 percent of successful attacks...