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CIS Control 04: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets and Software
By Matthew Jerzewski on Wed, 01/29/2025
Key Takeaways for Control 4Most fresh installs of operating systems or applications come with preconfigured settings that are usually insecure or not properly configured with security in mind. Use the leverage provided by multiple frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks or NIST NCP to find out if your organization needs to augment or adjust any baselines to become better aligned with the policies your...
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Beyond the Basics: Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases
Security, compliance, and IT operations leaders need a powerful and effective way to accurately identify security misconfigurations and indicators of compromise. Explore the many ways Tripwire Enterprise can protect your organization with superior security and
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Increasing Your Business’ Cyber Maturity with Fortra
By Antonio Sanchez on Wed, 09/20/2023
When building a tower, it helps to start with a sturdy foundation. Cyber maturity is the tower, and there are three levels that build it:
Foundational IT/OT & Security Control Processes
Fundamental Security Control Capabilities
Advanced Security Control Capabilities
Fortra occupies a unique space in the industry because of the sheer size of...
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Automating FISMA Compliance with Tripwire Security Configuration Management
FISMA requires federal agencies, and by extension, the foundations, educational institutions, organizations that receive federal funds as well as the contractors that do business with them, to develop, document, and implement information security programs to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data and systems that support government operations and assets.In meeting...
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Meeting FISMA SI-7 with Tripwire Integrity Monitoring
To enhance your Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance grade, you must implement one of the most challenging controls in NIST SP 800-53: the Controls, Family: System Information & Integrity (SI) 7 requirement. SI-7 states that organizations must employ automated and centrally managed integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized change. This level of visibility can be...
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Expert Compliance Automation Tips for Financial Services
Thu, 08/17/2023
Cybersecurity compliance standards like the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) do an excellent job of hardening systems against breaches. This is especially important in the financial services sector, a common target for cybercriminals. This on-demand webinar presented by Senior Solutions Engineer Dan...
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Managing Security and Compliance in a Remote Work Environment
By Joseph Chukwube on Mon, 01/20/2025
Remote work isn’t just a temporary trend anymore; it has become a permanent fixture. What began as a quick response during the pandemic has evolved into the new normal for businesses worldwide. In America, 20% of people now work from home.While this has its advantages (flexibility for workers and cost savings for businesses), it’s not without its complications, having cracked open a host of issues...
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Five Challenges of National Information Assurance and How to Overcome Them
By Christy Cherian on Tue, 10/15/2024
The National Information Assurance (NIA) Policy is a framework for offering organizations a foundation for information security management. It was designed and developed to aid organizations with the necessary steps to ensure information security, from assessing and classifying risk to choosing and implementing controls for mitigation.The NIA policy provides businesses with guidelines to support...
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Cross-Border Data Compliance: Navigating Public Security Regulations in a Connected World
By Guest Authors on Mon, 03/24/2025
It is a significant benefit that the world is connected the way it is, with the potential for even greater interconnectivity. However, this has come at huge costs, too, considering the rise in the direct involvement of state actors engaged in cyber warfare. Against this background, nations have a more acute awareness of digital vulnerabilities, which has radiated into regulatory frameworks...
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Dead Man’s Scripts: The Security Risk of Forgotten Scheduled Tasks in Legacy Systems
By Guest Authors on Mon, 05/19/2025
There are ghosts in the machine.Not the poetic kind. I mean literal, running-code-with-root-access kind. The kind that was set up ten years ago by an admin who retired five jobs ago. The kind that still wakes up every night at 3:30 a.m.; processes something no one remembers, and then quietly vanishes into the system logs. Until, of course, something goes wrong—or someone takes advantage of it...
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What Makes Fortra’s Tripwire Different
Your Integrity Management AllyAre you weighing your options between integrity management solutions? Evaluating, purchasing, and deploying new software is hard work, especially when you get down to the granular details of understanding which solutions have which capabilities and matching those capabilities to your organization’s particular needs. In an industry buzzing with ever-changing...
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FISMA SI-7 Buyer's Guide
The FISMA SI-7 Buyer’s Guide focuses on one of the most difficult security controls agencies must adhere to: NIST 800-53 SI-7. Learn what solutions to look for.
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HITRUST: the Path to Cyber Resilience
By John Salmi on Wed, 05/22/2024
Much has been made of cyber resilience in recent years. And with good reason: failing to bounce back quickly from a security event can have dramatic financial consequences. In early 2023, Royal Mail took several days to recover from a Lockbit cyberattack, losing upwards of £10 million in the process. However, for all the talk about resilience, the industry seems to be overlooking one of its...
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Getting started with Zero Trust: What you need to consider
By David Bruce on Mon, 11/07/2022
Have you ever walked up to an ATM after another person finished with the machine only to find they left it on a prompt screen asking, “Do you want to perform another transaction?” I have. Of course, I did the right thing and closed out their session before beginning my own transaction. That was a mistake an individual made by careless error which...
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Integrity Monitoring Use Cases: Policy Monitoring for Compliance
By David Bruce on Fri, 11/11/2022
In response to increasing societal concerns about the way businesses store, process, and protect the sensitive data they collect from their customers, governments and standardization organizations have enacted a patchwork of regulations and laws. Some of these are generic regulations (CCPA, GDPR), while others are industry specific (SOX, NERC, HIPAA...
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The Dangers of Default: Cybersecurity in the Age of Intent-Based Configuration
By Faisal Parkar on Tue, 02/06/2024
Technology has recently been evolving at the speed of light. We have seen the onset of increased cyber threats across all industries. Gone are the times when threat actors had a specific goal and target. We now live in an age where robots collect, collate, and save information for a more opportune and profitable day.
It is ever more important to...