The importance of safeguarding and maintaining the integrity of your infrastructure cannot be overstated. One of the tools that organizations rely on to achieve this is File Integrity Monitoring (FIM). FIM is a crucial component of cybersecurity, helping detect unauthorized changes to files and ensuring data remains secure. However, FIM is not without its problems and shortcomings. Detecting change doesn’t guarantee your infrastructure is trustworthy and in a state of expected integrity. It simply alerts you that a baseline of monitored file(s) has been altered in some way, shape, or form.

Traditional tools like Tripwire, OSSEC, and others fit the bill if you need to know if a file or baseline has changed. But what value is it if you have no context of whether that change is good or bad (authorized or unauthorized)? Change is expected and occurs routinely every day. The number of alerts associated with changes can (Read more...)