Resources
Guide

Federal Cybersecurity: Security Fundamentals for Federal Agencies

Cybersecurity experts are urging government agencies to protect their data with up-to-date, foundational security controls, and agencies are listening. But how can they determine where exactly to focus their efforts to maximize efficiency and ensure a strong security stance? This white paper details the four key components federal agencies need in order to establish and maintain a robust security...
Guide

5 Critical Steps: Complete Security Risk and Compliance Lifecycle for Government

Maintaining security and compliance in today’s ever-changing environment is a never-ending task. To manage that task, the most successful government organizations adopt a systematic approach that promotes continuous improvement. Tripwire is a leading provider of enterprise-class foundational controls for federal security, compliance, and IT operations. We listened to our customers to understand...
Compliance
Guide

How Infosec Teams Can Overcome the Skills Gap

Does your organization have enough cybersecurity staff with a high level of expertise? If not, you’re not alone. The skills gap is weighing heavily on the minds of digital security team members. In a survey of 342 security professionals, Tripwire found that 83 percent of infosec personnel felt more overworked in 2020 than they did a year earlier. An even greater percentage (85 percent) stated that...
Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Guide

Succeeding as a Cybersecurity Leader in the New Decade

You and your security team have a lot on your plate. It’s crucial to keep your organization’s network protected by maintaining a security program that minimizes risk, and it’s you and your team’s responsibility to execute this. This effort has only become more complicated as we’ve entered into a new decade. With the dramatic shift to many of us working from home in 2020—and many organizations...
Guide

Foundational Controls Buyer's Guide

As your organization grows, your technology landscape becomes increasingly more sophisticated and complex. You need foundational controls to keep your organization secure, compliant and available. Foundational controls have proven to deliver a highly effective and efficient level of defense against the majority of real world attacks and provide the necessary foundation for dealing with more...
Compliance
Guide

Getting Up to Speed on GDPR

Search online for the phrase “data is the new oil” and you’ll see it’s used by (and attributed to) many people. Data is a precious and highly valuable commodity. Data is the fuel pumping through today’s digital business, powering communications and commerce. Organizations the world over are mining data to turn raw information into real insight—to drive sales and grow their business. ...
Compliance
GDPR
Guide

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Governance, Risk & Compliance, or Generating Real Capability! How do we use GRC as a business enabler, and focus on the benefits it brings?
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Compliance
Guide

Visible Ops Security: Four-Phase Approach to FIM File Integrity and Change Management Security

While annual business plans focus on strategic initiatives designed to keep the enterprise competitive or to mitigate risk, it’s the day-to-day operations that consume the most time and resources. For many IT organizations, it seems that just keeping the computers running and the lights on occupies the majority of their time. What can you do to gain control? Control change. When you can...
Guide

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...
Cloud Security
Guide

FISMA SI-7 Buyer's Guide

The FISMA SI-7 Buyer’s Guide focuses on one of the most difficult security controls agencies must adhere to: NIST 800-53 SI-7. Learn what solutions to look for.
Compliance
FISMA
Guide

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...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Guide

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...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Guide

The Value of True File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a technology that monitors for changes in files that may indicate a cyberattack. In many organizations, however, FIM mostly means noise: too many changes, no context around these changes, and little insight into whether a detected change actually poses a risk. What does file integrity monitoring do? FIM, and often referred to as “change audit” was around long...
File Integrity & Change Monitoring
Guide

The Executive's Guide to the CIS Controls

See how simple and effective security controls can create a framework that helps you protect your organization and data from known cyber attack vectors. This publication was designed to assist executives by providing guidance for implementing broad baseline technical controls that are required to ensure a robust network security posture. In this guide, we will cover a wide range of topics...
Compliance
CIS Controls
Security Configuration Management
Guide

Essential PCI DSS v4.0 Transition Checklist

The proliferation of online transactions isn’t the only reason the PCI Council created the new 4.0 standard. Recent years have also seen increasingly sophisticated methods among cybercriminals, a surge in cloud use, and the rise of contactless payments. This spurred the need for an updated set of PCI DSS requirements, which were released in March 2022 and will become mandatory in March 2024 for...
Compliance
PCI DSS
Guide

Executing an Efficient Cloud Security Strategy

How do organizations execute an efficient cloud security strategy and find the right cloud security tools? Tripwire asked a range of cloud security experts to share their thoughts on some of the key challenges regarding secure cloud storage and cloud computing security.
Cloud Security
Guide

Meet the Women Protecting Your Data

For every woman in an S&P 1500 chief executive role, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James—meaning there are more Williams than women in those roles. This gender gap also spans most STEM careers, cybersecurity included. Women make up only 20 percent of the global cybersecurity industry. If there’s any silver lining to be found in that stat, it’s that the number has nearly...
Guide

Defending Industrial Control Systems

Threats to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are increasing—a reality that ICS-centric industries have begun to recognize. As a response to the growing need for protection from cyberattacks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have published Seven Steps to Effectively Defend Industrial...
Industrial Control Systems
Guide

Detailed Mapping of the Tripwire and CIS Controls

The goal of the Center for Internet Security Controls is to protect critical assets, infrastructure and information by strengthening your organization's defensive posture through continuous, automated protection and monitoring of your IT infrastructure. The strength of the Controls is that it reflects the combined knowledge of actual attacks and effective defenses from experts in many...
Industrial Control Systems