It’s been a fantastic year on The State of Security blog. We’ve seen a real plethora of high-quality articles and here are my 10 favorites!

A Google Cloud Platform Primer with Security Fundamentals | By Ben Layer

Though less well-known than Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform currently makes up five percent of the cloud market and is growing at a rate 76 percent year over year. Tripwire’s Ben Layer takes this rising prominence into consideration in order to outline some fundamental steps for keeping Google Cloud Platform secure.

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Who Is Responsible for Your Cloud Security? | By Kim Crawley

Cloud services and the internet offer tremendous cost savings, efficiency and functionality. Unfortunately, putting your data on the internet exposes it to greater cybersecurity risks. It’s certainly possible to harden cloud services to make them a lot less vulnerable to cyber attack. But when Amazon or Google owns the infrastructure and your enterprise owns the data, who is responsible for keeping your cloud-hosted data secure? Guest contributor Kim Crawley addresses this issue at length.

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A ‘How To’ for Asset Tagging | By Mike Betti

Organizations can use the Tripwire Enterprise (TE) Asset Tagging feature to automate their management of as many as thousands of assets possible, and it makes reports more meaningful for the business. But asset tagging is a process which organizations must complete in order. Recognizing this fact, Tripwire’s Mike Betti explains how organizations can create and apply tags in a meaningful way.

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The Five Stages of File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) | By David Jamieson

As one of the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls, file integrity monitoring (FIM) is an important measure by which organizations can strengthen (Read more...)