Security Configuration Management

What Is SCM (Security Configuration Management)?

| | Featured Articles, network, NIST, SCM, Security Configuration Management, Security Controls
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic shifted the cybersecurity landscape. According to a PR Newswire release, the FBI tracked as many as 4,000 digital attack attempts a day during the pandemic. That’s 400% ...
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Ordell Robbie, Tripwire and Security Configuration Management.

| | Breach, SCM, Security Configuration Management, security standards, tripwire
ORDELL: Take the keys, man. Listen to music. LOUIS: Which one is for the car? (Ordell finds it. While he goes through the keys, Vicki comes back on the line.) (Max speaks ...
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Stop Wasting Your Time and Money with a “Checkbox” SCM Solution

| | Audit, Complaince, Featured Articles, SCM, Security Configuration Management, solution
By now, we know a lot about secure configuration management (SCM). We know the way it works, the integral processes of which it consists, the areas of your IT infrastructure that it ...
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Gearing Towards Your Next Audit – Understanding the Difference Between Best Practice Frameworks and Regulatory Compliance Standards

| | Audit, best practice, Compliance, frameworks, SCM, Security Configuration Management
Security configuration management (SCM) can help organizations do much more than just harden their attack surfaces against intrusions. This fundamental control also has the ability to make your audits flow more smoothly ...
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SCM: Understanding Its Place in Your Organization’s Digital Security Strategy

| | Featured Articles, FIM, SCM, Security Configuration Management, Security Strategies
Digital attackers can compromise a system in a matter of minutes. But it generally takes organizations much longer to figure out that anything has happened. In its 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report ...
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What is Configuration Drift?

| | configuration, Featured Articles, IT Security and Data Protection, Metrics, Security Configuration Management, SIEM
In a previous post by my colleague Irfahn Khimji, he spoke about how ensuring devices on your network is a great way to minimize the attack surface of your infrastructure. Organizations like ...
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Visibility, Vulnerabilities and VPNs – Extending Your Corporate Security Policies and Procedures to Cover Remote Workers

| | Security Configuration Management, security policy, Security Tools, VPN, Vulnerabilities
We’ve heard a lot about the drastic measures that organizations in North America and Western Europe are taking to protect their employees against the coronavirus. But as we all know, COVID-19 is ...
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Tripwire Enterprise and Zero Trust

| | File Integrity Monitoring, FIM, IT Security and Data Protection, SCM, Security Configuration Management, zero trust
Zero Trust is a new concept to many but one I believe will be of increasing importance over the coming years. With this post, I wanted to introduce newcomers to the concept, ...
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Best Practices for Using Tripwire Enterprise in Dynamic Environments – Part 1

| | asset management, Cloud, Security Configuration Management, Tripwire Enterprise
Just a few years ago, most IT environments were made up of deployed servers on which personnel installed applications, oftentimes as many as that one system could handle. They then remained and ...
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Proactive System Hardening: Continuous Hardening’s Coming of Age

| | Featured Articles, Hardening Guidelines, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, system hardening, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The first article in this series examined configuration hardening—essentially looking at ports, processes and services where security configuration management (SCM) is key. The second article looked at application and version hardening strategies ...
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