New Tripwire Enterprise 7.5V Offers a Single Point of Configuration and Security Control for Virtual and Physical Workloads

Do you know what state your systems are in at this very minute? If an auditor walked in to your company today to ensure all compliance regulations were being met and all change was accounted for, would your organization pass the audit?

How organizations manage day-to-day operations is the most important factor in achieving and maintaining a known, trusted and compliant state of systems. It also takes the right combination of best-in-class tools to control change and automate service.

With Tripwire and Vmware in your data center, IT organizations can benefit from virtualization technology while ensuring continuous compliance to operational, regulatory and security standards.

Tripwire Enterprise 7 is a game-changing solution in configuration audit and control. It is the first to combine change auditing with configuration assessment, giving you an automated method of achieving and maintaining continuous compliance.

When an organization starts its process improvement efforts, what most often goes wrong? What are IT management’s most frequent mistakes that cause their efforts to fail?

Looking for a low-risk way to increase control over changes in your IT organization with minimal work and financial investment?

Discover which everyday processes have the most impact on whether an IT organization performs at a high level or somewhere below the water line, and the two controls that make all the difference.

How quickly and accurately you fix problems is a direct result of how well you manage and control change. The second of four articles on Metrics that Matter.

In the first two installments of this series of articles on metrics that matter, we discussed how high performing IT organizations have the shortest Mean Time to Repair and achieve the highest levels of First Fix Rate. We analyzed how high performers fix outages faster by a factor of 10-100x, which may be a result of being 4x better at fixing outages the first time.

In the first three installments of this series on Metrics that Matter, we talked about ways in which IT organizations can improve their performance by managing the way high performers manage: fixing problems quickly (mean time to repair–MTTR), fixing problems correctly the first time (first fix rate–FFR) and ensuring changes that are made are done successfully (change success rate–CSR).

In previous articles I've talked about the culture of causality and culture of change management that all high performing IT organizations share. In this article, I will present data that shows what a startling and dramatic difference this characteristic makes in how effectively IT organizations fix problems, such as outages.

In their quest to achieve strategic and operational objectives, IT management has increasingly turned to process frameworks, such as ITIL, and controls frameworks, such as COBIT.

As we started evaluating the results of our three-year study, we could see that some of our initial suspicions were proving true.

Here, we look at how to implement a culture and methodology that will put your IT organization in the same category as the high performers in our survey and take your organization from good to great.

Tripwire co-founder Gene Kim discusses the ongoing disconnect between IT operations and security. Drawing from the findings reported in his new book, Security Visible Ops, he discusses the drive toward virtualization -- and how it may help bridge that gap.

You can't see it. You can't smell it. But it's deadly, and it may be in your IT organization's basement, silently killing your company.

Before we begin measuring unplanned work, we must first define the goal of an IT organization.

Can we quantify the costs of unplanned work to justify the ROI of putting in controls to reduce it?

The Visible Ops approach to solving the problem of unplanned work is to create a culture of change management and causality.

Our series of articles on unplanned work continues with an examination of ungoverned change, how it affects unplanned work, and how to begin the process of locking down the change in your IT organization.

In this final installment of our six-part series on unplanned work, we look at how implementing Visible Ops will turn your IT organization into a high functioning, mature organization.

Managing virtual environments as carefully as physical environments is key to ensuring security, compliance and operational control. Find out how configuration audit and control can help you make the most of virtualization.

Tripwire ConfigCheck^TM ensures your virtual machines are as secure and compliant as their physical counterparts.

How to automate processes for continuous compliance

To sustain compliance, organizations need to forgo manual "check the box" methods and implement automated solutions that satisfy auditors, reduce risk and improve efficiency.

Discover the three "public enemies" to any disaster recovery or business continuity plan and what you can do to ensure a successful failover in case of a disruptive event.

The new Tripwire Enterprise 7 is first to combine change auditing with configuration assessment, automating compliance and helping your IT systems achieve and maintain a known, trusted and compliant state.

Many Tripwire customers use compliance processes to also improve operations and security, quickly realizing ROI on their investment. Find out how they did it.

Successful CIOs and IT managers implement controls and change management policies so that the organization can react more quickly to business requirements without compromising user satisfaction, secure operations, or compliance.

Many of IT's key projects benefit, and most often thrive, with configuration audit and control solutions in place. By enhancing processes and improving performance in compliance and security, availability, ITIL/CMD initiatives, and change and configuration automation, change control helps reduce costs, mitigate risks and improve operations.