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Security Configuration Management Buyer's Guide
Agile enterprises need to adapt quickly to business digitalization and new IT models to ensure availability while controlling risk. What is constant is change. There are changes that organizations are adapting to and have control over, such as system virtualization, cloud deployment, and which endpoint devices they will accept (BYOD). However, they have less control over the threat landscape and...
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5 File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Myths and Misconceptions
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is the cybersecurity process that monitors and detects changes in your environment to alert you to threats and helps you remediate them. FIM was first introduced in 1997 when Gene Kim launched Tripwire and its “Change Audit” solution. Just a few years later, Change Audit became FIM, which worked with the 12 security controls identified in Visa’s Cardholder...
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What Experts Have to Say About Choosing the Right Cybersecurity Frameworks
Frameworks like the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls, MITRE ATT&CK and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework give organizations clear, step-by-step methodologies for protecting their sensitive data, leveraging a wealth of industry knowledge to take the guesswork out of your security program.While...
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Software Buyer's Guide
What Is File Integrity Monitoring?In an IT network, a file can range from a simple text file to a configuration script, and any change can compromise its integrity. A change to a single line item in a 100-line script could prove detrimental to the entire file or even operating system. For example, incorrectly assigning the wrong IP address to a...
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Zero Trust and the Seven Tenets
Whether you are new to information security, or you’re a long-time practitioner, it seems that “zero trust” is the latest initiative at the top of everyone’s priority list. This is a positive move in the InfoSec world, as many components of the zero trust approach have been implemented individually for many years but lacked overall unity as part of a...
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Don’t Get Hooked: How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Attacks
We hope you find this tool useful in promoting cybersecurity awareness at your organization.
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Building a Mature Vulnerability Management Program
An enterprise vulnerability management program is able to reach its full potential when it is built on well established foundational goals that address the information needs of all stakeholders, its output is tied back to the goals of the enterprise, and there is a reduction in the overall risk of the organization. Vulnerability management technology...
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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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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?
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Detailed Mapping of the Tripwire and CIS Controls
The goal of the Center for Internet Security Controls is to protect critical assets, infrastructure and information by strengthening your organization's defensive posture through continuous, automated protection and monitoring of your IT infrastructure.
The strength of the Controls is that it reflects the combined knowledge of actual attacks and effective defenses from experts in many...
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What Cybersecurity Pros Think of Zero Trust Today
Zero trust isn’t a new model, but its influence on the cybersecurity industry has strengthened over time since 1994. Zero trust became especially top-of-mind a few years ago when remote work and cloud services took off, prompting organizational leaders to rethink the way they enforced cybersecurity controls in an increasingly perimeter-less world.
Is zero trust just another cybersecurity buzzword...