Simultaneous Demands — Where Do You Start?While annual business plans focus on strategic initiatives designed to keep the enterprise competitive or to mitigate risk, it’s the day-to-day operations that consume the most time and resources. For many IT organizations, it seems that just keeping the computers running and the lights on occupies the majority of their time. And according to research — it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...