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,...

Changes to configurations, files and file attributes across the IT infrastructure are just part of everyday life in enterprise organizations. But hidden within the large volume of daily changes can be a few unauthorized changes that impact the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a system. To protect critical systems and data, you need to detect every change, capture relevant details...

Today’s IT and InfoSec Executives are challenged with an ever changing cybersecurity landscape. When combined with the proliferation of new sources of information every day, it can be increasing difficult to maintain and operate technology solutions that are designed protect the organization from risk. Many IT organizations are struggling to revise processes to establish governance practices, but...

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 cybersecurity skills gap can leave many organizations without adequate staffing for the operation of their security tools. High turnover rates can also cause an organization to lose essential knowledge when team members leave who were familiar with the tools. To complicate matters further, the pandemic is driving the need for temporary cybersecurity support as agencies navigate new, remote...

Have you ever wished that when you had a support issue you only had to explain it once, and to only one person? With a Tripwire Technical Account Manager assigned to your support needs, that’s a given. Having a Technical Account Manager (TAM) is like adding an extra member to your IT team— without adding extra head count. You gain a valued team member with specialized knowledge of Tripwire...

To ensure availability while controlling risk, today’s agile enterprises need to adapt quickly to business digitalization and new IT models. IT organizations are feeling pressure from the business to deploy applications faster to help stay ahead of the competition. Traditional approaches to systems management— manual processes, golden images, and custom scripts—don’t cut it anymore as the scale...

Overview There is mounting concern at the senior executive and board level regarding cybersecurity, driven by highly visible advanced targeted attacks. These attacks threaten precious IP, valuable customer information, company valuation and trade secrets. To truly protect valuable resources, organizations have to accept the nature of modern networked environments and devices, and start defending...

Remediation Manager is an add on module for Tripwire Enterprise that uses work orders, role based workflow features and automated scripts to ensure that configuration errors get fixed quickly, while simultaneously tracking duties and sign offs across various remediation activities. Users can launch Remediation Manager directly from their custom Tripwire Enterprise home page to review all current remediation work orders at a glance.

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...

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...