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How are you protecting your industrial assets from cyber threats? Industrial control system (ICS) environments pose unique security challenges that can quickly drain your resources if you’re faced with time consuming manual asset inventory and a lack of cohesion between your organization’s IT and OT strategies. Many security solutions can disrupt ICS or SCADA equipment as well, meaning you need a...

When security teams gradually optimize their security workflows and move from manual to automated processes, the topic of IT service management (ITSM) integration with security tools such as Tripwire® Enterprise is a natural next step. Your teams must be in sync about how information is entered into and managed by your systems in order to operate successfully, and it’s critical to have processes...

Keeping sensitive data and assets safe is the goal of regulatory cybersecurity frameworks such as the NIA. The National Information Assurance Policy provides organizations with the necessary foundation and the relevant tools to enable the implementation of a full-fledged Information Security Management System. The NIA policy guides organizations in classifying the impact of information security...

To ensure availability while controlling risk, today’s agile enterprises need to adapt quickly to business digitalization and new IT models. IT organizations are feeling pressure from the business to deploy applications faster to help stay ahead of the competition. Traditional approaches to systems management—manual processes, golden images, and custom scripts—don’t cut it anymore as the scale...

Companies need to expand their visibility into their organization’s security and compliance status. Unfortunately they are often stuck with multiple tools and system that makes things too complex. The integration between Tripwire Enterprise and ServiceNow creates a workflow for the smooth exchange of system change and security configuration state information with a wide variety of compliance,...

Federal security managers expect that most federally run systems are actively engaging with FISMA compliance for protecting federal data and systems. However, as we all know, federal information does not remain only in federally operated systems. Data and IT systems connect via the Internet and other networks for business, operations and research. Information about citizens, banking and finance,...

Not all organizations have the internal resources necessary to manage their cybersecurity and compliance solutions in-house. This may seem like a roadblock to those who see the greater potential of their solutions and want to do more to reach their goals but cannot expand their technical teams due to the high demand for qualified candidates or budgetary limitations. However, the services available...

Cybersecurity teams often rely on input from highly skilled experts to help maximize the success of their work. Yet execution of one-time projects may not provide the ongoing expertise needed to sustain an initiative. And not every organization has the resources — let alone the need — for full-time consulting services. Fortra’s Tripwire Advisory Services is a subscription-based, remote...

Industrial operators subject to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) standard know that achieving compliance is no minor feat, and serious strategic consideration is required to ensure efficient resource use in the compliance process. By meeting NERC CIP compliance, these companies take important steps towards securing their IT/OT...

Quickly and easily visualize the overall health of your IT environment with the right data and the business context around that data. Tripwire Enterprise offers the rich data, controls and policies, and Splunk provides the means to visualize the data in easy-to-implement dashboards. This will reduce the cycle-time of identifying vulnerabilities or security violations and reduce the mean-time-to-repair. Pick, choose and reuse dashboards and panels Easily view system state and vulnerability data from Tripwire Fast reporting and drill-down over large amounts of data Quickly detect, prioritize and investigate risk Launch Tripwire Enterprise in context on specific changes and policy tests.

Flexible, Automated, Multi-Policy ComplianceMost large-scale entities need to prove compliance with multiple regulatory standards. Whether it be finance companies, retailers, manufacturers, or hospitality firms; meeting compliance mandates can be a major drain on time and resources, if you let it. On top of that, it’s not uncommon to have an internally-created compliance standard that demands...

Organizations have continually found new ways to unlock the value of Tripwire Enterprise, adding additional leverage to a valuable strategic business solution. And now you can extend Tripwire Enterprise to achieve better, faster and more cost-effective cyberthreat protection and compliance.

North American electric utility companies constantly balance the need to be audit-ready for NERC CIP compliance against their top priority: ensuring the reliability of the bulk electric system.NERC CIP compliance, especially when approached using manual methods, is complex, time-consuming, and prone to human error. Further, NERC CIP requirements often infer security skill sets beyond those of many...

Some of our nation’s most critical physical infrastructure is represented by the national Bulk Electric Systems (BES). Today’s digital world relies upon this interconnected network of power generation and transmission systems more than ever. To ensure the reliability and resilience of that network, providers must continually manage threats to the infrastructure, including many that relate to...

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) maintains comprehensive reliability standards that define requirements for planning and operating the bulk electric system (BES). Among these are the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards, which specify a minimum set of controls and processes for power generation and transmission companies to follow to ensure...