Observation vs. Monitoring: What’s the Difference in the World of Cybersecurity

I took note of the recent uptick in discussions about the concept of observation in the IT world and found myself compelled to come back to the topic, which I’ve touched on ...

Conquering the Taproot of Cybersecurity

What is your organization’s approach to security events? For many organizations, each security alarm is treated with the same urgency as a fire. While a sense of urgency is good, the ensuing panic that ...

To Detect or Not to Detect, Is that the Question?

Tripwire Enterprise (TE) is at its heart a baselining engine. It’s been built to take information, create a baseline of it, and show when that baseline has changed. (It’s called a “version” ...

Remember a Polaroid? Why This Matters and How Tripwire Keeps this Tradition Alive

We’re going to talk about state versus change. For the purposes of our discussion, you need to know that Tripwire Enterprise offers something called TE Commander. Many enterprise applications lack a native ...

A Cure for a Disheartened Cybersecurity Professional

Data breaches and ransomware attacks aren’t just still occurring. They’re also becoming more frequent. According to ZDNet, the number of ransomware attacks detected and blocked by one security firm grew 715% year-over-year ...

What Is a Security Operations Center (SOC)?

Data breaches are costing organizations millions of dollars on average. In its 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, IBM found that a data breach cost the average organization $3.86 million. This ...

Agentless Monitoring with Tripwire Enterprise: What You Need to Know

As we know, Tripwire Enterprise (TE) is the de-facto go-to solution for File Integrity Monitoring (FIM). In normal operations, we deploy a TE agent to a system we want to monitor. TE ...

Securing Your Supply Chain with CIS and Tripwire

Where were you when you first heard about the SolarWinds breach? It’s not unusual for information security professionals to learn about a breach. Keeping track of the news is part of the ...

Managing Your Assets with Tripwire Enterprise

Asset management is a tricky subject. In many cases, organizations have no idea about how many assets they have, let alone where they are all located.  Fortunately, there are tools that can assist ...

Common Criteria Certification: What Is It, and What Does It Mean for Tripwire Enterprise?

Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC) is an international agreement that provides a set of standards, testing processes, and documentation standards that is widely recognized as the leading standard for ...