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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...
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Enterprise Vulnerability Management in the Cloud
Mon, 08/15/2022
See how other organizations have simplified and automated compliance reporting processes, risk scoring and prioritized remediation efforts.
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30 Ransomware Prevention Tips
By Guest Authors on Tue, 04/11/2023
Dealing with the aftermath of ransomware attacks is like Russian roulette. Submitting the ransom might seem like it’s the sole option for recovering locked data. Ransomware also continues to evolve as a threat category within the past year, with old names like REvil rearing their heads and new players like Black Basta emerging in 2022. Malicious...
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Root Cause Analysis for Deployment Failures
By Chris Hudson on Tue, 04/25/2023
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a technique used to identify the underlying reasons for a problem, with the aim of trying to prevent it from recurring in the future. It is often used in change management processes to help identify the source of any issues that arise following any modifications to a system or process.
RCA is something Tripwire...
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Do you Work in a SOC Noise Factory?
By Anthony Israel-Davis on Mon, 05/22/2023
Gabrielle is a security engineer. She deploys tools to scan for threats and vulnerabilities, read logs, and manage the security risks for her company, but is all that data really helping? Sometimes, it seems like she works in a noise factory instead of a SOC. The cacophony of all the log and event data and vulnerability scans are pouring into the...
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Defending Against Ransom DDoS Attacks
By Guest Authors on Wed, 10/23/2024
DDoS attacks have become an annoyance most companies assume they may have to deal with at some point. While frustrating, minor website disruptions from small-scale hacktivist campaigns rarely create substantial business impacts. However, a particularly insidious DDoS spinoff has emerged over the past decade – one aimed at blackmail.This evolutionary milestone stems from what's called Ransom DDoS ...
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Low-Hanging Fruits Vs. Those at the Top of the Tree: Cybersecurity Edition
By Joe Pettit on Tue, 07/16/2024
Companies often go for high-end cybersecurity solutions because dealing with complex problems looks impressive. The appeal of fancy tech and advanced security challenges gives them a sense of achievement and a chance to show off their skills - and says they're serious about staying ahead of cyber crooks.However, this isn't always the best strategy. Many significant risks arise from simple...
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Monitoring Applications vs. Operating Systems: Why It Matters
By Jeff Hines on Tue, 02/18/2025
In today’s dynamic IT environments, securing and maintaining the integrity of your systems is critical. Fortra’s Tripwire Enterprise is a robust tool designed to help organizations ensure compliance and security by continuously monitoring the configuration and behavior of their IT assets.When deploying Tripwire, a common question arises: should you prioritize monitoring applications, operating...
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Mastering Cybersecurity Incident Communication Part 1: A Proactive Approach
By Guest Authors on Mon, 04/07/2025
Cybersecurity threats are no longer a matter of "if" but "when." While companies invest heavily in technical defenses, one important aspect often gets overlooked — communication.How an organization communicates during a cybersecurity incident determines the speed and effectiveness of its response, as well as the level of trust it maintains with stakeholders.Here, we’ll walk through the...
Guide
Cybersecurity for Work-From-Home Tools
This guide covers the biggest challenges securing work-from-home tools and three actionable steps you can take to overcome them.
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10 Ways Tripwire Outperforms Other Cybersecurity Solutions
As a security professional, you’re tasked with protecting your organization against attacks, detecting threats, identifying vulnerabilities and hardening configurations. But in an increasingly crowded marketplace, how do you choose the right cybersecurity partner? From experience and technical innovation to security expertise, Fortra's Tripwire stands out from the competition.Here are 10 reasons...
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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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How Tripwire Helped Walgreens Take a Proactive Approach to Security
Mon, 08/15/2022
Walgreens, founded in 1901, is one of the largest pharmacy companies in the U.S., handling online and in-store sales as well as processing the prescription needs of millions of customers. It needed a security solution that would give them an integrated, all-up view into its IT ecosystem. Its Tripwire ExpertOps solution has given the company a much more proactive view and approach to its security...
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Defending against DDoS Attacks: What you need to know
By Bob Covello on Mon, 09/25/2023
Patience is one of those time-dependent, and often situational circumstances we experience. Few things define relativity better than patience. Think of the impatience of people who have to wait ten minutes in a line at a gas station, yet the thought of waiting ten minutes for a perfectly brewed cup of coffee seems entirely reasonable. It can’t be...