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10 Common Security Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them
Is your organization using default security settings, or do you have a security configuration management (SCM) program in place to ensure your configurations are as secure as possible?
Misconfigurations are a leading cause of unauthorized access and security breaches, creating entry points for hackers in servers, websites, software, and cloud infrastructure. The Open Worldwide Application...
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5 Things Your FIM Solution Should Do for You
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is a critical security control that helps organizations detect system changes in real-time that indicate impacts to compliance and potential cybersecurity incidents, empowering teams to respond rapidly.
FIM is required by many major compliance standards such as North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP), the...
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How Managed Services Can Help With Cybersecurity Compliance
Organizations are often overburdened with managing complex tools to handle their most important compliance responsibilities, and in many cases lack the internal headcount to manage those tools with highly-trained expertise. Managed services can solve your security staffing and resource challenges by arming your team with security expertise to maintain optimal compliance.
Managed service providers...
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Toolkit
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is used to detect and correct unauthorized system changes that may be indicators of compromise. As the inventors of FIM, Fortra’s Tripwire has a multi-decade track record of helping organizations that want to reduce cyber risk and achieve system integrity to avoid security breaches and audit fines.
This toolkit is a collection of helpful resources such as articles,...
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Beyond the Basics: Tripwire Enterprise Use Cases
Security, compliance, and IT operations leaders need a powerful and effective way to accurately identify security misconfigurations and indicators of compromise. Explore the many ways Tripwire Enterprise can protect your organization with superior security and
continuous compliance.
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Why Integrity Should Be Your Organizing Cybersecurity Principle
While integrity has been a common word in the cybersecurity lexicon for years, its meaning and use have been relatively limited. It may be time to reconsider its central role in security. The reality of always-connected networks, fluid data transfers across cloud and hybrid environments, and broadly deployed endpoints presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at integrity as an organizing...
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Multi-Cloud Security Best Practice Guide
When you opt to use multiple cloud providers, you’re implementing a multi-cloud strategy. This practice is increasingly common, and can refer to mixing SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) offerings as well as public cloud environments that fall under the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) category. The most common public cloud environments today are Amazon Web Services ...
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Tripwire State of Cyber Hygiene Report
Tripwire’s State of Cyber Hygiene report reveals the results of an extensive cybersecurity survey conducted in partnership with Dimensional Research. The survey examined if and how organizations are implementing security controls that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) refers to as "Cyber Hygiene."
Real-world breaches and security incidents prove over and over again that many of the most...
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Threat Prevention is Foundational
How proper foundational controls help block today’s advanced threats
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Six Security Controls to Prevent Your Cloud from Getting Hacked
There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle cybersecurity for you. The truth is, cloud providers use a “shared responsibility model”. They protect underlying Cloud infrastructure, but leave protection of Cloud-deployed assets and data up to you.
To help meet this need, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has created the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy. This...
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Survey: Securing Public Cloud Infrastructure
Do you have a centralized view of your organization’s security posture and policy compliance across all cloud accounts? A Tripwire and Dimensional Research survey conducted in 2021 found that only 21 percent of security professionals could answer “yes.”
The survey included more than 300 cybersecurity professionals who are directly responsible for the security of public cloud infrastructure within...
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Security Configuration Management Buyer's Guide
Security configuration management (SCM) exists at the point where IT security and IT operations meet. It’s a core security control that combines elements of vulnerability assessment, automated remediation, and configuration assessment.
The goal of SCM is to reduce security risks by ensuring that systems are properly configured — or hardened — to meet internal and/or regulatory security and...
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Securing AWS Cloud Management Configurations
Amazon has captured nearly half of the cloud market making it a prime target for attacks. When AWS accounts are compromised, the go-to payload is often cryptocurrency mining where attackers make money using stolen CPU cycles that get billed to the victim's account.
Fortunately, there is guidance from the Center for Internet Security (CIS). In 2016, CIS launched the Amazon Web Services Foundations...
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Meeting Multiple Compliance Objectives Simultaneously With the CIS Controls
The CIS Controls are a set of recommendations comprised of controls and benchmarks. They are intended to serve as a cybersecurity “best practice” for preventing damaging attacks. The recommendations are meant to provide a holistic approach to cybersecurity and to be effective across all industries. Adhering to them serves as an effective foundation for any organization’s security and compliance...
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Implementing Cloud Security Best Practices
Cybersecurity professionals the world over share common cloud security concerns like risk management, configuration security, and cloud compliance. As organizations expand further into the cloud, there continues to be an influx of simple mistakes that can expose organizations to significant security, privacy, and regulatory risks.
Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to understand what...
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Solid Foundations for Cloud Security: Houses Built on Sand or Rock
Moving mission critical applications to the cloud provides a whole host of benefits but it also means trusting cloud providers with key aspects of security and compliance.
This paper provides tools you can use to evaluate the security and compliance offerings of cloud computing partners. It also describes how Tripwire’s solutions can be used to build and deploy a rock-solid security foundation...
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5 File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Myths and Misconceptions
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is the cybersecurity process that monitors and detects changes in your environment to alert you to threats and helps you remediate them. While monitoring environments for change sounds simple enough, there are plenty of misconceptions about how exactly FIM fits into a successful cybersecurity program. It’s essential to address those common myths now so that...
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Software Buyer's Guide
There’s a lot more to file integrity monitoring than simply detecting change. Although FIM is a common policy requirement, there are many FIM capabilities and processes you can elect to implement or not. These can vary from a simple “checkbox” compliance tool to the option to build effective security and operational controls. These decisions directly affect the value your organization gains from...