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- FISMA: Securing Federal Systems and Data With Tripwire
- Recognizing the importance of securing federal systems and data, Congress passed the Federal Information Security Management Act FIMSA in 2002. The act requires federal agencies develop, document and implement agency-wide information security programs to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data and systems that support government operations and...
- Tags: FISMA, Tripwire, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2009-08-05
- Dynamic Data Center Compliance With Tripwire and Microsoft
- Compliance is a reality, but IT Operations does not need to become a security expert to monitor the health of their IT infrastructure in real-time. With the Tripwire Compliance Management Pack for System Center, users gain a central, end-to-end solution for monitoring the health and performance of their virtual and...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Tripwire, Regulatory Compliance, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-06-27
- Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance
- The number of security breaches of federal information systems and cases of improper access to these systems continues to grow at an alarming rate. In fact, federal civilian agencies reported three times more cyber security incidents in 2008 than in 2006, according to the Department of Homeland Security DHS. And...
- Tags: Security Breach, FISMA, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Tripwire, Cybersecurity, Security
- White papers 2009-04-28
- Addressing Compliance Initiatives With Tripwire and the Center for Internet Security (CIS)
- In this paper, discover what you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. This whitepaper looks at: What the CIS is and how it develops its benchmarks How to use the benchmarks to address compliance and...
- Tags: Security, Internet, Compliance, Internet Security, Tripwire
- White papers 2009-03-26
- The Tripwire HIPAA Solution: Meeting the Security Standards Set Forth in Section 164
- The 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...
- Tags: Security, Health Care, Security Standard, Tripwire, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2009-03-07
- Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments
- Virtualization is the hottest technology for CIOs today with it ranked one of the top 5 important trends for 2008 according to a recent poll from CIO Insight.6 With the cost-savings, agility and convenience virtualization offers, it's no wonder. Smart companies will realize that virtualized environments require the same careful...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Virtual Environment, Tripwire, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-12-20
- Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance
- The North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC is a nonprofit corporation created to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America is reliable, adequate and secure. As the federally designated Electric Reliability Organization ERO in North America, NERC maintains comprehensive reliability standards that define requirements for planning and operating...
- Tags: Tripwire, North America, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-10-14
- Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
- Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.
- Tags: Tripwire, Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-09-12
- Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
- This paper, describes seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments, some are directed specifically at virtualized environments. Every day, information security practitioners live with...
- Tags: Information Security, Virtualization, Tripwire, Security
- White papers 2008-09-12
- Is Virtualization Under Control?: Current Opinions on Security and Controls for Virtual Servers in Production Environments
- Tripwire recently surveyed enterprise IT professionals to assess how vigorously virtualization is expanding within production server environments and to gauge if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Virtualization has clearly gained a lasting foothold, and the strength of IT process controls on virtual servers is reported to...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Virtual Server, Environment, Server, Tripwire, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-09-12
- What's Good for Security is Good for Operations: Why Configuration Assessment Followed by Change Auditing is Key to Operational Stability
- Network administrators and IT managers know that the ramifications of one small change to a company's critical servers or network devices--such as routers, switches, and firewalls--depend on whether the change is desired or not. Without a way to know when change occurs and whether it's desired, not desired, accidental, benign,...
- Tags: Auditing, Server, Network Device, Tripwire, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Tripwire PCI DSS Solutions: Automated, Continuous Compliance
- The credit card industry has stepped up its pressure for banks, merchants and other service providers to increase data security. But now, compliance is no longer voluntary; it is a requirement, and failure to meet PCI DSS standards can result in monetary penalties. Fortunately, these standards amount to best practices,...
- Tags: Compliance, Decision Support System, Tripwire, Credit Card Industry, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments
- Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Virtual Environment, Tripwire, Security
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Basel II Compliance With Tripwire: Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures
- As if financial institutions did not have enough compliance worries, a new international standard - Basel II - now looms on the compliance horizon. Unlike other laws and standards affecting financial institutions in the US and overseas such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA"), the EU Data Protection Directive and the...
- Tags: Financial, Compliance, Tripwire, Basel II, Financial Services
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Canada Implements Corporate Governance: Bill 198 and Internal Controls for Technology
- Much has been written about the internal control and disclosure requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") in the United States following many high-profile cases of corporate malfeasance and deceptive practices. Not surprisingly, Canada has enacted its own solution to today's governance and financial reporting requirements, factoring in the US experience...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Internal Control, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Corporate Governance, Tripwire, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Planning, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2008-09-11
- MiFID Compliance With Tripwire
- MiFID is a European Union Directive that, like its 1993 predecessor seeks to establish conditions under which investment firms and banks that engage in the investment business can provide such service or establish branches in other Member States, based on home country authorization and supervision. The EU created MiFID to...
- Tags: Tripwire, MiFID, PDAs, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Handhelds, Hardware, Internet
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Tripwire and 21 CFR Part 11: Ensuring Integrity and Trustworthiness of Electronic Clinical Data
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA has issued a set of regulations, collectively called 21 CFR Part 111 and commonly referred to as Part 11, that provide criteria for acceptance of electronic records and electronic signatures as equivalent to paper records and handwritten signatures executed on paper. These regulations,...
- Tags: FDA, Tripwire, Federal Government, Government
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Tripwire Helps Meet FFIEC Requirements
- Off late information security and technology risk management was relegated to the back office or basement operations of most financial institutions3. Today, with the passage of legislation such as the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act GLBA and the subsequent GLBA Security rule that took affect in 2001, information security and technology risk...
- Tags: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Tripwire, Regulations, Security, Government
- White papers 2008-09-11
- Beyond Disaster Recovery: Using Configuration Control to Develop an Effective BCP
- One of the most significant events involving lost data since the beginning of the information technology age was the result of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Of the 131 technology sites affected, only two performed a successful "Failover" to a redundant system. Of the 129 sites that failed,...
- Tags: Tripwire, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2008-09-11
- File Integrity Monitoring: Compliance and Security for Virtual and Physical Environments
- Off late organizations rely on numerous devices and applications in their physical and virtual IT infrastructure to carry out their everyday business. When these devices are configured improperly, whether as a result of malicious hacker attacks or inadvertent employee modifications, the IT infrastructure may be exposed to security risk that...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Environment, Compliance, Monitoring, Tripwire, Security
- White papers 2008-09-11
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