The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires all publicly held companies to establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting to reduce the possibility of corporate fraud. SOX is not specific on the types of controls that are required, but points to the COBIT framework to provide organizations’ guidance on their IT governance. The Challenge Change is ever occurring in your systems...

However, gaining this caliber of visibility can be challenging for many reasons, including: Standard IT solutions and scanning methods are typically incompatible with and unsafe for industrial networks » Traditional industrial asset inventory solutions often require hardware that can be costly, complex, and time consuming to deploy Many industrial networks are geographically isolated and/or...

With pressure on IT departments to remain lean and efficient, comply to policies and regulations, and also provide reliable 24/7 service, it is imperative that companies large and small adopt solutions and processes to ensure a known and trusted state at all times. With the reliance on technology to conduct business, interact with customers, and meet auditing requirements, “store doors” need to...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (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 related to the health care...

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,...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was created to help organizations that process credit card payments, secure the cardholder environment to prevent credit card fraud, cyber threats and other security vulnerabilities. The latest version, 4.0, provides specific security guidance on handling, processing, transmitting and storing credit card data to minimize the theft,...

Controlling change and enforcing internal or external policies requires not only trusted change and compliance data, but the ability to quickly transform that data into relevant, meaningful information. Tripwire® Enterprise is known for its unparalleled ability to assess and validate configuration settings and manage configuration changes, but it’s also the most dependable source available for the...

Industrial automation and process control systems largely run our world. However, cyber risks to industrial networks, endpoints and control systems are on the rise and protecting highly specialized plant environments can be very challenging for industrial businesses and critical infrastructure. Cyber threats have been shown to come from simple employee or contractor error, malicious insiders or...

Detect Change and Assess Compliance with Tripwire Enterprise Tripwire® Enterprise is the industry standard for integrity monitoring, change detection, and compliance validation. With Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can effectively baseline the asset configurations throughout their environment, and then detect any change—including detection in real time. Accurate and comprehensive change...

Industrial control systems (ICS) are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks. The best way to protect your data is to segment your industrial environment into distinct security zones. The Tofino Xenon security appliance does just that. Customizable and rugged, it is the ideal solution for protecting your ICS for maximum uptime, safety, and productivity. Not only can it perform deep packet...

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.

The Tripwire Enterprise Hardware Configuration Parameters document gives configuration guidance for deploying Tripwire Enterprise. This document gives requirements and recommendations for Small, Intermediate, and Enterprise deployments and such parameters as Usage, CPU type and size, Memory, Storage, OS, and Database.

In a very real sense, IT security configurations are the proverbial “keys to the kingdom” when it comes to data protection and information security. They define system safeguards while balancing acceptable risk against the need for productivity. Hackers and attackers understand this balance all too well: the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report noted that 83 percent of successful attacks...

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,...

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...

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...

The IRS 1075 publication lays out a framework of compliance regulations to ensure federal tax information (FTI) is treated with adequate security provisioning to protect its confidentiality. This may sound simple enough, but IRS 1075 puts forth a complex set of managerial, operational and technical security controls you must continuously follow in order to maintain ongoing compliance.Any...