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Tripwire Products: Quick Reference Guide
By Megan Freshley on Mon, 05/15/2023
Here at The State of Security, we cover everything from breaking stories about new cyberthreats to step-by-step guides on passing your next compliance audit. But today we’d like to offer a straight-forward roundup of Fortra's Tripwire product suite. Get to know the basics of Tripwire’s core solutions for file integrity monitoring (FIM), security...
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ICS Environments and Patch Management: What to Do If You Can’t Patch
By Anastasios Arampatzis on Wed, 03/05/2025
The evolution of the cyber threat landscape highlights the need for organizations to strengthen their ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate cyber risks before they evolve into security incidents. Criminals often exploit known unpatched vulnerabilities to penetrate Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environments and disrupt critical operations. Although patch management seems like the obvious...
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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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Tripwire and GDPR: Achieve Compliance Using Foundational Controls
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.
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Cloud Data Security: Implementing Smarter Cloud Security
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...
Gain Unparalleled Visibility by Combining Solutions from Fortra’s Tripwire and Splunk
Cyberthreats are constantly evolving. Visualize the current security status of your IT environment by adding Tripwire’s deep configuration and change data with IT information stored in Splunk Enterprise.
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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.
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Integrity Monitoring Use Cases: Compliance
By David Bruce on Wed, 10/19/2022
What is File Integrity Monitoring?The IT ecosystems of enterprises are highly dynamic. Typically, organizations react to this volatility by investing in asset discovery and Security Configuration Management (SCM). These core controls enable businesses to compile an inventory of authorized devices and monitor the configurations of those assets. In...
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Leveraging the Power of File Integrity Monitoring
File Integrity MonitoringWith 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,...
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Why File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Is a Must for Compliance — And How to Pick the Right Solution
By Katrina Thompson on Thu, 09/11/2025
As Fortra’s new File Integrity Monitoring Buyer’s Guide states, “What was once a security control for simple file changes now ensures integrity across organizations’ entire systems.” The landscape has evolved significantly since Fortra’s Tripwire introduced file integrity monitoring (FIM) over twenty years ago.But that’s exactly why the industry is due for a new look at what makes a FIM solution...
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Tripwire NERC CIP Report Catalog
Fortra’s Tripwire NERC CIP Solution Suite is an advanced offering that augments Tripwire’s tools for meeting 24 of NERC CIP’s 44 requirements. The Tripwire NERC CIP Solution Suite allows you to achieve and maintain NERC CIP compliance with high efficacy and reduced effort. This suite includes continuous monitoring of cyber assets, automated assessment of security, and audit-ready evidence with...
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Improving your Cybersecurity Posture with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
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...
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Tripwire and LinkShadow
LinkShadow integrates with Tripwire solutions to complete the full cycle of behavioral analytics and threat hunting, providing the combined benefits of Tripwire’s file integrity monitoring (FIM) technology and proactive threat detection.Next Generation Cybersecurity AnalyticsLinkShadow® Cyber Security Analytics Platform is designed to manage threats in real time. It utilizes AI based machine...
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The Importance of Layered Cybersecurity Solutions
By Guest Authors on Wed, 10/16/2024
The threat of cyberattacks is at an all-time high. In fact, research shows that worldwide cybercrime costs are anticipated to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Cybercriminals threaten all, as 43% of cyberattacks target small enterprises. The rise of these threats underscores the importance of a robust cyber defense strategy, and one key way to do that is through layered cybersecurity...
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How to Integrate FIM with SOAR Platforms
By Chris Hudson on Wed, 11/06/2024
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a key intelligence and audit tool in an advanced security portfolio. While it is a logical component to integrate into your Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tooling, it’s important to consider your approach to ensure you can gain the most benefits from it.Classify FirstThe sensible starting place for your integration is to consider your FIM...