The global impacts of ransomware have only intensified in the opening years of the 2020s. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that ransomware is now present in 10 percent of all breaches as it continues to gain in popularity among cybercriminals. Tripwire® Enterprise helps protect against ransomware attacks by enabling you to identify and correct weakened security configurations...

Today’s agile enterprises need to adapt quickly to business digitalization and new IT models, ensuring availability while controlling risk. IT organizations are feeling pressure from the business to deploy applications faster, and stay ahead of the competition. Traditional approaches to systems management— manual processes, golden images and custom scripts—don’t cut it anymore because of the vast...

Remediation Manager is an add on module for Tripwire Enterprise that uses work orders, role based workflow features and automated scripts to ensure that configuration errors get fixed quickly, while simultaneously tracking duties and sign offs across various remediation activities. Users can launch Remediation Manager directly from their custom Tripwire Enterprise home page to review all current remediation work orders at a glance.

Correlating changes with change requests—and distinguishing authorized and intended changes from unauthorized and unintended ones—doesn’t need to be a full-time job. The Tripwire® Enterprise Integration Plug-in for Remedy AR System combines authorized change information managed by the Remedy AR System with Tripwire’s robust change auditing capabilities. This powerful combination enables...

The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) is the government entity in charge of cybersecurity in Saudi Arabia, encompassing both regulatory and operational functions related to cybersecurity. National Cybersecurity Authority Essential Cybersecurity Controls The NCA works closely with public and private entities to improve the cybersecurity posture of the country in order to safeguard its...

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...

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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...

Tripwire offers mature, refined integration frameworks. With them, you can combine Tripwire Enterprise’s rich change, configuration and compliance information with data from additional security solutions, like SIEMs, change management (CM) systems, change management databases (CMDBs), and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) systems.

Most enterprises experience massive amounts of system configuration change every day, and experience has shown that an average of 50% of system changes are simply additions, changes, or deletions considered “business as usual” (BAU) for your organization. The vast majority of these changes can be quickly accepted and promoted as “known good.” Tripwire® Dynamic Software Reconciliation (DSR)...

Many security and operations teams leverage security information and event management (SIEM) solutions to track the state of their environment and alert on security and operational issues. While this may be an effective way to gain that single view of your environment, objective compliance results and file integrity data such as who made the change, exact before and after differences in files or...

Federal security professionals are tasked with protecting agencies against attacks, detecting threats, identifying vulnerabilities, and hardening configurations while simultaneously demonstrating that critical systems are in compliance. Each of these complex processes must be executed with limited time and resources. In an ideal environment, an agency’s security solutions would enable personnel to...

Changes to configurations, files and file attributes throughout the IT infrastructure are just part of everyday life in today’s enterprise organizations. But hidden within the large volume of daily changes are the few that can impact file or configuration integrity. These include unexpected changes to attributes, permissions and content, or changes that cause a configuration’s values, ranges and...

To enhance your Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance grade, you must implement one of the most challenging controls in NIST SP 800-53: the Controls, Family: System Information & Integrity (SI) 7 requirement. SI-7 states that organizations must employ automated and centrally managed integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized change. This level of visibility can be...

When it comes to compliance and security, efficient patch management is a critical capability. In order to be effective, patch management requires a closed-loop process for approval and reconciliation, especially in highly sensitive operational environments. Whether you are evaluating patches for security or operational purposes, Tripwire and FoxGuard integrate seamlessly for an innovative...

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...

The United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, was enacted to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) by mandating procedures and controls to assure the public that critical and private information is controlled from loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. With few exceptions, an organization is subject to HIPAA if it exchanges data...

The HITRUST CSF rationalizes relevant regulations and standards (such as NIST, CIS, and HIPAA) into a single overarching security and privacy framework. Now, with Tripwire® Enterprise, organizations can automate HITRUST CSF assessment and reduce the burden of compliance. Any organization that collects or stores personally identifiable information (PII) faces a relentless stream of cyberattacks....

Enrich your SIEM with Compliance and Change Intelligence Stay ahead of emerging threats with IBM Security and Tripwire Cybercriminals are more sophisticated than ever, and the attacks on all types of organizations show no signs of slowing down. That’s why IBM Security, Tripwire and a wide range of security industry leaders have joined forces on the IBM Security App Exchange—so security teams...