security standards
Escaping PCI purgatory. Compliance roadblocks and stories of real-world successes
White Paper By now, any companies driving high volumes of credit card transactions that are not compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security standards (DSS) faces steep penalties. This white paper... [02 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment The other important principle is to specify reliability in terms of standards and outputs rather than inputs. An emerging practice of collaborative 'plug testing' helps to ensure that systems work to common... [19 Oct 2009]
The Tripwire HIPAA Solution: Meeting the Security Standards Set Forth in Section 164
White Paper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, was enacted to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) by mandating procedures and controls to assure the public that critical and private information is... [05 Oct 2009]
Dynamic Data Center Compliance With Tripwire and Microsoft
White Paper For IT, gaining and maintaining compliance with one or more regulations or security standards is challenging, but necessary. In fact, most regulations and security... [05 Oct 2009]
Securing WLANs With Two-Factor Authentication
White Paper The combination of 802.1x standards, the EAP standards, WPA and RSA SecurID solutions allow organizations to deliver secure access to critical corporate assets while protecting data during transit in a... [05 Oct 2009]
PCI Security Compliance: The Facts - What PCI Security Means for Your Business
White Paper The PCI DSS is now actively maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council, and represents a multifaceted standard that includes requirements for security management, policies,... [05 Oct 2009]
The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing
White Paper Cloud computing promises to change the economics of the data center, but before sensitive and regulated data move into the public cloud, issues of security standards and compatibility must be addressed... [05 Oct 2009]
FISMA: Achieving and Maintaining Compliance to Ensure Security of Systems and Data
White Paper This paper is intended to show how Tripwire Enterprise can continue to help federal agencies, as well as the organizations that store, process or transmit federal information, and the contractors that do business with the federal... [05 Oct 2009]
Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance
White Paper Among these are the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards, which ensure the protection of the Critical Cyber Assets that control or effect the reliability of North America's... [05 Oct 2009]
RSA Federated Identity Manager: A Technical Overview
White Paper This paper summarizes the concepts underlying federated identity, explores the standards and specifications that are emerging to support identity federation, including the Security Assertion Markup... [05 Oct 2009]
Basel II Compliance With Tripwire: Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures
White Paper Unlike other laws and standards affecting financial institutions in the US and overseas such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA"), the EU Data Protection Directive and the PCI Data Security Standard,... [05 Oct 2009]
Implementation of SSL Using Information Security Component Interface
White Paper However, these standards are not compatible, and the developer must use those APIs selectively depending on the application environment or the programming language. Various security APIs (Application... [04 Oct 2009]
Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper This whitepaper examines the FDCC requirements, the compliance challenges including vulnerability management, change control, and system security management and also highlights how Lumension's SCAP Validated FDCC scanner... [02 Oct 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper REs are required to retain 12 months of auditable data, documents and records on their information security controls and specific logs for 90 days in order to be compliant with the new CIP standards.... [02 Oct 2009]
Security - A Major Imperative for a Service-Oriented Architecture
White Paper This paper examines crucial SOA security issues - including confidentiality, integrity and availability - and reviews the technologies, tools, standards and architectures used to ensure SOA... [02 Oct 2009]
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