The Host based Security System (HBSS) is a suite of products that the Department of Defense (DoD) mandated for use within the DoD Enterprise Network in early 2007. The intent was that DoD organizations would use it to monitor, detect, and prevent successful attacks against the department’s systems and networks. On the surface, the concept of HBSS is a solid one: a consistent, single IT security...

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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,...

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.

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,...