Case Study
Tripwire and Astro Making Best Practices a Daily Show
Assessing and managing vulnerabilities is a core cybersecurity practice, but it can put a heavy strain on IT security and operations teams. In many cases, introducing vulnerability management as a service is what’s necessary to overcome the challenge of accumulating vulnerabilities across complex IT environments—especially when time and resources are limited.This was the case for one mid-size U.S....
Case Study
Security and Compliance in Federal Agencies: 3 Tripwire Use Cases
Use Cases Ensuring compliance and minimizing Automating manual tasks and enhancing breach detection Monitoring critical assets in the public cloud Tripwire understands the security demands faced by federal government agencies. Security decision makers at these agencies aren’t only tasked with securing operations in a complex threat landscape—they also have to prove regulatory compliance at the...
Datasheet
Tripwire and Eaton
Transmission and Distribution asset owners have to juggle disconnected or disparate tools to satisfy NERC CIP and internal cybersecurity requirements. Specifically for substation automation applications, monitoring the various intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) like relays, RTUs, and connected I/O can prove difficult and time consuming.
Tripwire and Eaton offer a unique combination of...
Datasheet
Integrated ICS Compliance Automation with SigmaFlow
SigmaFlow is the industry leading solution for orchestrating NERC CIP compliance to achieve an ongoing state of Audit Readiness. Tripwire, Inc. is a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance management solutions. Integrating these solutions offers an automated way to drastically reduce the time and resources required to manage NERC compliance and collect comprehensive...
Guide
Getting Up to Speed on GDPR
Search online for the phrase “data is the new oil” and you’ll see it’s used by (and attributed to) many people. Data is a precious and highly valuable commodity. Data is the fuel pumping through today’s digital business, powering communications and commerce. Organizations the world over are mining data to turn raw information into real insight—to drive sales and grow their business.
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Guide
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Governance, Risk & Compliance, or Generating Real Capability! How do we use GRC as a business enabler, and focus on the benefits it brings?
Guide
Industrial Cybersecurity is Essential
Don’t believe there are real cyberthreats to your operations network and control systems? Data shows otherwise. Better foundational industrial cybersecurity practices can help prevent disruption to your operations and financial risk to your bottom line.
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Guide
Meeting Multiple Compliance Objectives Simultaneously With the CIS Controls
The CIS Controls are a set of recommendations comprised of controls and benchmarks. They are intended to serve as a cybersecurity “best practice” for preventing damaging attacks. The recommendations are meant to provide a holistic approach to cybersecurity and to be effective across all industries. Adhering to them serves as an effective foundation for any organization’s security and compliance...
Guide
Tripwire State of Industrial Cybersecurity Report
As news of cyberthreats targeting industrial environments like energy utilities and manufacturing plants continues to surface, Tripwire surveyed security professionals who work in these industries to understand how industrial organizations are protecting themselves. The survey findings revealed insights on the security professionals’ levels of concern, investment in cybersecurity, and how they are...
Blog
PCI DSS 4.0 and ISO 27001 – the dynamic duo
By Guest Authors on Wed, 04/27/2022
It’s not often we can say this, but 2022 is shaping up to be an exciting time in information governance, especially for those interested in compliance and compliance frameworks.
We started the year in eager anticipation of the new version of the international standard for information security management systems, ISO 27001:2022, soon to be followed...
Blog
CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management
By Matthew Jerzewski on Wed, 10/16/2024
We all know that it is a question of when you will be compromised and not if you will be compromised. It is unavoidable. The goal of CIS Control 17 is to ensure that you are set up for success when that inevitable breach occurs. If an organization is neither equipped nor prepared for that potential data breach, they are not likely to succeed in responding to the threat.Key TakeawaysOne takeaway...
Guide
9 Steps for Maturing Beyond Checkbox Compliance
A common mistake many organizations make is approaching cybersecurity as a series of actions taken in order to check the right compliance boxes. If this sounds familiar, it’s likely that you’ve witnessed something similar to the cycle of crisis-driven audit preparation, a suspenseful audit, remediating based on those findings, and waiting until the next hurried audit preparation phase returns.
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Guide
How to Achieve Compliance with the NIS Directive
Network and information systems (NIS) and the essential functions they support play a vital role in society from ensuring the supply of electricity, water, oil and gas to the provisioning of healthcare and the safety of passenger and freight transport. In addition, computerized systems are performing vital safety-related functions designed to protect human lives. For example, such systems are...
Blog
What you need to know about PCI 4.0: Requirements 10, 11 and 12
By David Bruce on Wed, 06/29/2022
As we continue our review of the 12 Requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0, one has to stop and consider, is it possible to have a favorite section of a standard? After all, most guidance documents, as well as regulations are seen as tedious distractions from the importance of getting the job done. However, depending on a person’s position and function...
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IRS 1075 Compliance Solutions with Tripwire
The IRS 1075 publication lays out a framework of compliance regulations to ensure federal tax information (FTI) is treated with adequate security provisioning to protect its confidentiality. This may sound simple enough, but IRS 1075 puts forth a complex set of managerial, operational and technical security controls you must continuously follow in order to maintain ongoing compliance.Any...
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Tripwire ExpertOps and SOX
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...
Blog
Major Database Security Threats and How to Prevent Them
By Katrina Thompson on Wed, 10/02/2024
Human nature tells us that we’ll go for the low-hanging fruit before climbing a tree. Since threat actors are (after all) human, the same applies to them. Since databases are particularly vulnerable to many lower-level attacks, they are constantly at high risk. From misconfiguration to credential theft, these repositories of sensitive information can be preyed upon by even the most nascent...
Product Video
AAA: Getting Roadside Assistance from Tripwire
Mon, 08/15/2022
Tim Masey, Director of Enterprise Information Security at AAA, shared his company’s PCI journey: beginning with a small implementation of Tripwire, then running into roadblocks by Management for the expansion of products, and eventually moving forward with the implementation of Tripwire’s policy driven dashboards, rules and tasks for over 500 servers.