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Cybersecurity in Education (K-12) with the CIS Controls
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Cybersecurity in Education (K-12) with the CIS Controls

By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/13/2020
Why is cybersecurity important to Education? Acknowledging recent reports of ransomware targeting educational institutions, it is no wonder that there have also been articles that attempt to lure in readers with “free” tools. What is disappointing is that these “free” tools are little more than marketing pieces that direct you to click on readily...
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Compliance
CIS Controls
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Quick Guide to Modern Security Configuration Management

Fri, 01/31/2020
Security configuration management is the cybersecurity process of ensuring systems are properly configured to meet security and compliance standards, reducing cyber risk in the process. The practice of detecting and remediating misconfigurations combines elements of integrity monitoring, configuration validation, vulnerability assessment, and system remediation. "The reliability of (Tripwire...
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Security Configuration Management
Forensics in the Cloud: What You Need to Know
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Forensics in the Cloud: What You Need to Know

By Tripwire Guest Authors on Tue, 08/20/2019
Cloud computing has transformed the IT industry, as services can now be deployed in a fraction of the time that it used to take. Scalable computing solutions have spawned large cloud computing companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. With a click of a button, personnel can create or reset entire infrastructure...
Cybersecurity
Cloud Security
How the CIS Controls Can Help You Achieve PCI DSS 3.2 Compliance
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How the CIS Controls Can Help You Achieve PCI DSS 3.2 Compliance

By David Bisson on Sun, 08/05/2018
Compliance with version 3.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a must for organizations that handle, process, transmit and store payment card data. But compliance isn’t always easy to establish or maintain. Indeed, there are certain challenges along the way that can make organizations’ compliance with PCI DSS 3.2...
Compliance
CIS Controls
PCI DSS
Jumpstarting Your Cyberdefense Machine with CIS Controls V7
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Jumpstarting Your Cyberdefense Machine with CIS Controls V7

By Maurice Uenuma on Thu, 05/17/2018
Amidst the volatility, uncertainty and noise of the cybersecurity field, few best practice frameworks have emerged as consistently reliable and useful as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Security Controls. Recently updated as version 7.0, the CIS Controls represent the most important security controls that an organization must implement to...
Compliance
CIS Controls
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Intrusion detection and the “kill chain”

By Tripwire Guest Authors on Tue, 07/31/2012
Last week, I sat in on a briefing by a guy who calls himself “Four” who happens to be involved in intrusion detection for Facebook. He shared some interesting perspective at the Black Hat conference through a discussion of ”Intrusion Detection Along the Kill Chain.” The information Four presented is based on the work done by Eric M. Hutchins, Michael J. Cloppert, Rohan M. Amin, Ph.D of Lockheed...
Incident Detection & Investigation