The Challenges of Traditional File Integrity Monitoring

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.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Cimcor Blog authored by Mark Allers. Read the original post at: https://www.cimcor.com/blog/the-challenges-of-traditional-file-integrity-monitoring