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Securing Industrial Control Systems with Tripwire

Mon, 08/15/2022
Industrial and critical infrastructure asset owners face a perfect storm of challenges from aging technology and rising cyber risk to increasing regulations and a significant cybersecurity skills gap. Building cybersecurity protection into industrial automation and process control within plant environments is not easy. This brief provides simple steps that allow industrial organizations to select...
Industrial Control Systems
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Survey: Securing Public Cloud Infrastructure

Mon, 08/15/2022
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...
Cloud Security
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Securing the Entire Container Stack, Lifecycle and Pipeline

Mon, 08/15/2022
With the rise in popularity of containers, development and DevOps paradigms are experiencing a massive shift. You may be struggling to figure out how to secure this new class of assets and the environments they reside in. Introducing good security hygiene into the container ecosystem is not a simple task. This paper will cover all the high points of what it means to secure the entire container...
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Security and Compliance for Remote Federal Workers

Mon, 08/15/2022
In response to the coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made an unprecedented call for agencies to maximize telework flexibilities, resulting in 78 percent of the federal workforce working remotely. This abrupt and wide-scale shift to a remote work environment required agency security teams to adjust with little to no planning, placed a tremendous strain on...
Compliance
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Security Configuration Management Buyer's Guide

Mon, 08/15/2022
Security Configuration Management exists at the point where IT security and IT operations meet. It’s a software-based solution 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—hardened—to meet internal and/or regulatory security and compliance...
Security Configuration Management
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Responding to High-impact Vulnerabilities: Are You Prepared?

Mon, 08/15/2022
In information security, it’s often said, “It’s not a matter of if, but when” an organization will be hit by a breach—it's an accepted fact that preventative controls will eventually fail to keep attackers out. And now, with high-impact vulnerabilities like Heartbleed and Shellshock being discovered with some regularity, the likelihood of a serious breach is greater than ever. In this paper, we highlight how the tactics and strategies to respond to high-impact vulnerabilities differ from those used in other security events, outline the steps you can take to prepare for these vulnerabilities before they hit, and provide insight into incident response strategies.
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Survey: Retail Industry Ramps Up Cybersecurity for 2020 Holiday Season

Mon, 08/15/2022
The retail industry always has to make special preparations for the holiday season. That was especially the case this year. With Covid-19 disrupting shopping behaviors and creating a surge in online shopping, security teams at these retail organizations have had to make adjustments as well. Tripwire partnered with Dimensional Research to understand how retail organizations are adapting their...
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Securing AWS Cloud Management Configurations

Mon, 08/15/2022
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...
Cloud Security
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Secure Remote Access

Mon, 08/15/2022
As an organization’s infrastructure becomes more and more connected and complicated, it becomes more important than ever to have a safe and protected way for employees to access systems remotely. This is not just a challenge for IT environments, but OT environments as well. Nearly half of the Fortune 2000 organizations consider OT networks to be critical components of their business1. It’s...