Prioritizing Changes: File Integrity Monitoring Tools & Best Practices

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, you need instant access to the right information to quickly make informed decisions. But limited visibility into configuration changes and the risk posture of your network assets can slow reaction times. While capturing deep, rich system configuration information from assets improves visibility, it also produces a flood of additional data that can complicate prioritization. And that problem only multiplies as asset coverage expands with the ever-increasing number of connected devices and endpoints.

In short, you don’t need more data to improve threat detection and response—you need timely and actionable information. You also need high-confidence context, or that information will have limited actionable value.

You can solve this “big data” security problem with an integrated, automated and prioritized view of your enterprise security posture that only Tripwire can provide. Using Tripwire’s advanced endpoint discovery and profiling technologies, you can automatically adjust your security controls based on system changes and potential business impact to significantly reduce overall enterprise cyberthreat risk.

Continuous Security Control Automation

Now you can easily identify unauthorized changes occurring on your highest-risk endpoints, enabling you to prioritize remediation based on risk and change activity. Tripwire Enterprise leverages the risk intelligence collected through an endpoint profiling and assessment process to correlate, prioritize and filter system configuration changes and risk, while it enables automatic adjustment of monitoring and policy application within the ranges you specify.

An Integrated View of Enterprise Security Posture

Remediation is streamlined through a single, prioritized view of compliance findings and risk. This reduces process heavy communication and duplication of effort and data, while providing improved coordination and increased visibility between IT and Security functions.

Security Coverage at Enterprise Scale

Important assets can be continuously monitored for change, and you’ll know if—and where—coverage is missing. The device inventory provided through discovery and profiling delivers an automated view of Tripwire Enterprise-managed versus unmanaged assets for a consistent view of enterprise-level security coverage. This gap analysis helps you identify all assets on your network, decide on additional coverage to improve your overall risk posture, and identify unknown devices that may be exposing your organization to greater risk.

The Value of Risk Intelligence

Tripwire risk intelligence delivers valuable information including:

Asset Discovery

Know what’s on your network. Discover known and unknown assets that are not currently managed by Tripwire Enterprise.

Network Risk

Combine endpoint profile and change intelligence for a consolidated view of network risk. View reports and dashboards that filter and display security, threat and compliance information based on asset severity categories.

Endpoint Risk

Identify the most critical security issues quickly using Tripwire’s advanced risk-based scoring. Monitor high asset severity nodes for suspicious changes. Threat Watch List Quickly identify changes on endpoints that are exposed to specific risks like ShellShock and Heartbleed from a continually updated library of over 93,000 checks.

Application Watch List

Monitor for applications associated with threat indicators of compromise and data exfiltration, as well as applications (such as cloud sharing services) prohibited by policy.

Threat Skill Level

Filter changes based on current threat information, including if exploit kits and automation tools are available to attackers, to closely monitor high-risk nodes.

Business Impact

Prioritize monitoring and response based on the business impact of a successful exploit. Automatically adjust monitoring based on the exposure, availability, and integrity impact of a successful exploit.