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Prioritizing Changes: File Integrity Monitoring Tools & Best Practices
Tue, 06/30/2020
What does file integrity mean?
There’s not enough time in the day to investigate every system change, which means you need laser-sharp focus to quickly find the greatest risks to your business. However, the ever-evolving capabilities of cyber adversaries—coupled with the dynamic nature of corporate networks—makes security prioritization increasingly difficult.
To combat enterprise cyberthreats...
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Department of Defense Overview: Integrated Security Controls to Protect Your Organization
Tripwire provides an integrated suite of solutions to help solve security challenges facing organizations within today’s Department of Defense. Tripwire tools have been used within government and military organizations in both tactical and non tactical environments to ensure system hardening through security configuration management, real time threat detection with continuous monitoring, and data...
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Watch a Demo of Tripwire File Integrity Manager
Mon, 08/15/2022
Detecting change in your IT environment is a foundational control necessary to ensure that assets are maintained successfully and securely. Tripwire's suite of essential security controls allows you shorten the time it takes to catch threats, anomalies, and suspicious changes.
This video demonstrates how file integrity monitoring can help enhance the overall security and risk management of your...
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Why Integrity Should Be Your Organizing Cybersecurity Principle
While integrity has been a common word in the cybersecurity lexicon for years, its meaning and use have been relatively limited. It may be time to reconsider its central role in security. The reality of always-connected networks, fluid data transfers across cloud and hybrid environments, and broadly deployed endpoints presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at integrity as an organizing...
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Integrity and FIM: It’s More than Just Data Security
By Jeff Moline on Tue, 06/18/2024
Integrity is a vital component of any cybersecurity policy, making up one-third of the CIA Triad. However, until recently, the industry has had a limited understanding of the term, using it primarily in the context of data security. Integrity means so much more than this principle alone: it impacts every facet of an information system and can drive an organization's entire security program...
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Privacy Updates in Q3 2022: Major Developments Across the Globe
By Guest Authors on Fri, 11/04/2022
The third quarter saw some major developments across the privacy space. In the U.S., we saw a federal bill for comprehensive privacy achieve more than ever before, children’s privacy proved to remain a top concern, and the Federal Trade Commission formally began its heavily criticized “Magnuson-Moss rulemaking” process. Not to be outdone, the...
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Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product
By Jeff Moline on Thu, 07/27/2023
How many security products does it take to monitor an organization? Even a small company often finds itself working with multiple monitoring tools to gain visibility into its security posture. This creates multiple blind spots, as a security analyst needs to jump between different tools with different formats and configurations to research a...
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Security Immutability: The Importance of Change
By Tyler Reguly on Mon, 08/14/2023
A few years ago, I wrote about the importance of security immutability. More specifically, I discussed how important it is that your environment be unchangeable in order to ensure that it remains secure. As I looked back on the article, I found it rather amusing that the article was published 4 years ago, but that feels like a lifetime ago. In the...
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The CIA Debate: Which is the Most Important?
By Anastasios Arampatzis on Mon, 08/21/2023
The Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) Triad is a crucial information security model that guides and assesses how an organization manages data during storage, transmission, and processing. Each component of the triad plays a vital role in maintaining information security:
Confidentiality means that data should not be accessed...
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How FIM Protects Assets in a Borderless World
By Guest Authors on Mon, 12/19/2022
Recent advancements in the digital landscape have led to a new kind of paradigm, one where enterprise perimeters are no longer clearly defined or limited. The rapid uptake of remote working, cloud, and IoT led to these prominent shifts, resulting in users, applications, and data no longer residing exclusively within the perimeters of the enterprise....
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Operational Resilience: What It Is and Why It's Important
By Nick Hogg on Wed, 12/13/2023
Frankly stated, operational resilience is your ability to climb the mountain, no matter the weather. Businesses now need more than a good security structure to weather the storms of AI-driven threats, APTs, cloud-based risks, and hyper-distributed environments.
And more importantly, operational resilience in 2024 requires a paradigm shift....
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Non-repudiation: Your Virtual Shield in Cybersecurity
By Dilki Rathnayake on Tue, 01/09/2024
In the digital world, where countless users communicate, share data, and engage in diverse activities, determining the origin and actions behind these interactions can be quite challenging. This is where non-repudiation steps in. Coupling other security factors, such as delivery proof, identity verification, and a digital signature, creates non...
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Guardians of the Files: Tracing the Evolution of File Integrity Monitoring
By Kelsey Arhart on Mon, 09/02/2024
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a cybersecurity process that involves continuously monitoring files and systems to identify any unauthorized changes. FIM solutions maintain file integrity by comparing a file or system's current state to a known, trusted baseline and flagging any discrepancies. It is key for identifying security breaches, preventing data tampering, and maintaining compliance...
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Measuring the Effectiveness of File Integrity Monitoring Tools
By Mark Conway on Tue, 05/28/2024
A security incident can be the result of a single unauthorised change. A few may say, 'one change is inconsequential, don't sweat the small stuff.' But when it comes to infrastructure security, the detail is of paramount importance! Just a single edit to a single line item can have a negative effect on an entire file or operating system. It's...
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Monitoring Your Files for Security and Compliance
By John Salmi on Tue, 10/01/2024
Have you ever stopped to consider all of the components that comprise a working automobile? Even a cursory examination reveals more parts than might be considered when we turn the ignition key. However, many of these components are useless when detached from the full product. A steering wheel without a car is not exactly an efficient mode of transportation.However, when multiple entities work...
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The Past, Present, and Future of File Integrity Monitoring
By Amir Gerges on Tue, 10/22/2024
Also known as change monitoring, File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) solutions monitor and detect file changes that could indicate a cyberattack. They determine if and when files change, who changed them, and what can be done to restore files if those changes are unauthorized. As such, FIM solutions are useful for detecting malware and achieving compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and are a...