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Why Fortra's Tripwire?

Fortra's Tripwire protects the world’s leading organizations against the most damaging cyber attacks. Our solutions work on-site and in the cloud to find, monitor and minimize a wide range of threats without disrupting daily operations or productivity. Think of us as the invisible web of detection that keeps systems safe.
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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...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
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Why This U.S. Military Agency Chose Tripwire Enterprise

Ensuring the cybersecurity of the U.S. Military is a unique responsibility with unique compliance requirements across a wide variety of platforms and systems. As a key component of the Federal Government’s overall data and system integrity protections, meeting the Defense Information Systems Administration Security Technical Implementation Guide (DISA STIG) file integrity monitoring (FIM)...
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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...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
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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...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
The Four Stages to a Successful Vulnerability Management Program
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The Four Stages to a Successful Vulnerability Management Program

By Mitch Parker on Wed, 04/20/2022
Have you ever been around someone who is just better at something than you are? Like when you were in grade school and there was this person who was effortless at doing things correctly, like getting high grades? They had great study habits, they arrived on time, they were prepared and confident in the materials that they studied in class, and they...
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Top Tips for Moving from Compliance to Cybersecurity Excellence
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Top Tips for Moving from Compliance to Cybersecurity Excellence

By Anastasios Arampatzis on Tue, 04/19/2022
Compliance should be an essential part of business operations, regardless of industry. Taking preventative measures to manage compliance and mitigate risk can feel like a hassle upfront, but it can save your organisation huge costs in the long run. Compliance violations can result in fines, penalties, lawsuits, loss of reputation, and more. However,...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of April 4, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of April 4, 2022

By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/11/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of April 4, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Borat RAT, a new RAT that performs ransomware and DDoS...
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Companies are more prepared to pay ransoms than ever before
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Companies are more prepared to pay ransoms than ever before

By Graham Cluley on Thu, 04/07/2022
A new report, which surveyed 1200 IT security professionals in 17 countries around the world, has shone a light on a dramatic rise in the number of organisations willing to pay ransoms to extortionists. The ninth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR), produced by CyberEdge Group, shows that not only has there been a substantial increase in the...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 28, 2022
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 28, 2022

By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/04/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of March 28, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. Muhstik Botnet Targeting Redis Servers Using Recently...
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How Does Cybersecurity Impact Environmental Services and Infrastructure?
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How Does Cybersecurity Impact Environmental Services and Infrastructure?

By Guest Authors on Mon, 04/04/2022
Environmental sustainability has become a significant concern for businesses today. Yet, many are not seeing the connection between sustainability efforts and cybersecurity. Despite how different they may seem, these two topics are intertwined. If environmental services and infrastructure don’t embrace better security, the consequences could be...
What Trust and Compliance Looks Like in a Cookieless Digital World
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What Trust and Compliance Looks Like in a Cookieless Digital World

By Guest Authors on Tue, 03/29/2022
Originally envisaged as a convenient way to store web data, cookies emerged as a powerful marketing tool in the 2000s. For many years, digital marketers relied on cookies for data collection. However, in recent history, new privacy laws, browser features, and plug-ins have changed the landscape of data collection. Marketers have had to develop...
6 Critical Areas of Cloud-Native Security That Are Influential in 2022
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6 Critical Areas of Cloud-Native Security That Are Influential in 2022

By Guest Authors on Sun, 03/27/2022
Cloud computing has emerged as the go-to organizational workload choice because of its innate scalability and flexibility. However, cloud computing still comes with some security risks. Examining cloud security is an important part of adopting this new technology. Presently, cloud-native security is experiencing changes and innovations that help...
How to Combat Asset Blindness in OT Security
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How to Combat Asset Blindness in OT Security

By Joseph Chukwube on Sun, 03/20/2022
One of the main challenges of OT security is the problem of compatibility. OT components often differ significantly from each other in terms of age and sophistication as well as software and communication protocols.This complicates asset discovery and makes it difficult to establish a consistent cybersecurity governance approach. Combating asset...
To Governance and Beyond: Cybersecurity as a Journey
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To Governance and Beyond: Cybersecurity as a Journey

By Guest Authors on Wed, 03/16/2022
How often have you heard someone say "Cybersecurity is complicated!"? If you're a practitioner in the cybersecurity industry you'll have heard these words often, probably along with "…and it's really boring too!" Complex, not complicated Let's start with the first statement. In truth, cybersecurity is a complex topic, but that doesn't mean it...
Texas SB 820 Advances K-12 Cybersecurity Despite Limitations
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Texas SB 820 Advances K-12 Cybersecurity Despite Limitations

By Editorial Staff on Sun, 03/13/2022
Like many organizations, K-12 schools adapted to COVID-19 by accelerating their digital transformation journeys. And like everyone else who followed this path, they invited unwanted attention from digital criminals in the process. In December 2020, for instance, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint alert...
Dispelling 5 Myths and Misconceptions Surrounding File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
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The Five Stages of File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)

By Mitch Parker on Tue, 03/08/2022
The benefits of a capable and properly deployed File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) solution are plentiful: If you see unexpected or unexplained file changes, you can investigate immediately and resolve the issue quickly if your system has been compromised. You can reconcile changes against change tickets or a list of approved changes in a text file...