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 IntelligenceStay ahead of emerging threats with IBM Security and TripwireCybercriminals 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 from...

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...

Business/ Technical Challenges The real problem? Fragmented tools. Many complex systems to manage Multiple sources of truth that don’t always match up With the spike in advanced, zero day and targeted attacks, it’s more difficult than ever to detect them quickly and respond in time—and no one has unlimited resources to address the large number of malicious incidents. It’s now a problem of...

Cloud computing has transformed business and government at an extraordinary pace by delivering business-supporting technology more efficiently than ever. The cloud has changed the way IT thinks about how to design and deliver computing technology applications and, according to Gartner, by 2015 10% of enterprise IT security will be delivered in the cloud. What if enterprises could improve IT...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program to standardize the level of cybersecurity implemented throughout its 300,000 suppliers. In practice, this means that every member of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) will be required to pass an audit in order to win DoD contracts. Compliance for a small number of contracts began in...

Many enterprise applications lack a native command line interface. This can be a challenge if you want to automate and integrate basic operations, which is a necessary function in most enterprise IT environments. Tripwire® Enterprise (TE) Commander is a cross-platform CLI for Tripwire Enterprise that allows unlimited integration and workflow possibilities. It offers a consistent, flexible and...

In the cloud, flexibility is key. A major driver of cloud infrastructure adoption is the degree to which it can elastically scale with usage needs as they fluctuate from one day to the next. Sharing security responsibilities with the cloud provider can also relieve some of the burdens of busy security teams. But for all the merits of cloud infrastructure’s flexibility, it also means compliance and...

Overview There is mounting concern at the senior executive and board level regarding cybersecurity, driven by highly visible advanced targeted attacks. These attacks threaten precious IP, valuable customer information, company valuation and trade secrets. To truly protect valuable resources, organizations have to accept the nature of modern networked environments and devices, and start defending...

Most large-scale entities need to prove compliance with multiple regulatory standards. Whether it be finance companies, retailers, manufacturers, or hospitality firms; meeting compliance mandates can be a major drain on time and resources, if you let it. On top of that, it’s not uncommon to have an internally-created compliance standard that demands enforcement. These require the same level of...

SIEMs are the incident detection tool of choice, but as organizations broadly deploy them throughout large distributed networks, IT security teams face a growing challenge: isolating the real threats from the volumes of noise generated by the IT infrastructure. Industry research and practitioners say the best way to reduce that noise is by comparing security events to other trusted sources of...

Tripwire® Asset Discovery Appliance discovers all networked hosts, applications and services. By providing a comprehensive view of devices and software on your network, you gain the foundation for effective security configuration management and compliance processes. Only this appliance provides low bandwidth, non-intrusive host and network profiling for use with Tripwire Enterprise. Tripwire...

TISAX, the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange, is a mandatory compliance requirement for companies that touch any point of the German automotive supply chain. Its industry-wide enforcement applies to auto manufacturers and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), but reaches further to encompass development and procurement departments as well: Even if your company isn’t Germany based...

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) gives organizations a major advantage in terms of orderly, on demand user credential management. The Tripwire® Enterprise integration with AD allows Tripwire Enterprise to gather group and member information based on existing roles within AD. Without this integration, organizations using security products in tandem with AD can run into excess administrative...

Many organizations have misdiagnosed a critical endpoint security and IT problem, the collection of endpoint data. The mistake is thinking, “We have too much data!” While organizations may have a large volume of data, they are still not collecting complete data, or in some cases not collecting data at all, from the many endpoints in their environment. Many organizations have: Silos of...