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...

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...

Your Tripwire implementation captures data from thousands of systems with millions of unique elements. Figuring out which configurations, security events or changes need your attention can distract from more strategic business tasks—or from using the valuable intelligence it provides to manage IT risk throughout your enterprise. So if you’d like to spend more time managing your business and less...

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...

There isn’t an industry that hasn’t been affected by cyber threats, and the broadcast industry is no exception. In April 2015, France’s TV5Monde was attacked, resulting in eleven of its channels going dark and its social media outlets commandeered to display pro-Islamic State messages. This was preceded by an attack on WBOC in Salisbury, Maryland, where their Twitter account and website were...

The recently enacted European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires organizations to take adequate measures to ensure the security and privacy of personal data of any European citizen. This supersedes the previous Data Protection directive. As a regulation—as opposed to a mere directive—it directly imposes a uniform data security law regime on organizations that need to comply...

The trend of mass migration to the cloud brings benefits like lower operating costs, easier deployability, and the flexibility of an elastic environment. However, it’s crucial to understand that the responsibility to secure your cloud infrastructure still falls on your organization. Cloud providers allow organizations to take advantage of their infrastructure, resulting in a shared model for...

North American electric utility companies constantly balance the need to be audit-ready for NERC CIP compliance against their top priority: ensuring the reliability of the bulk electric system. NERC CIP compliance, especially when approached using manual methods, is complex, time-consuming, and prone to human error. Further, NERC CIP requirements often infer security skill sets beyond those of...

Over the past several years, the number of known vulnerabilities has grown drastically, and has continued to challenge security and operations teams to keep pace with the continuing flow of new security advisories. One of the biggest problems is accurately determining which vulnerabilities present the greatest risk to prioritize remediation efforts. Most vulnerability management tools use crude...

There is a misunderstanding that if you are compliant, you are secure. This isn’t the case. For example, adhering to PCI DSS v4.0 will only allow you to tick the box to say you are PCI compliant in that moment. It gives you a snapshot in time of where you are in your compliance journey. But it won’t prevent your company from suffering a breach—along with incurring fines and reputational damages...