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Configuration Audit Additional White Papers

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  Optimizing Infrastructure Control

  An investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security. Discover why IDC Research says TripWire can claim complete configuration control as its own domain.
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  Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments

  While the ability to rapidly deploy computing resources is a clear benefit of virtualization, that same capability potentially raises the risk of deploying insecure IT infrastructure. Find out how to minimize those risks, with seven practical steps that range from reducing privileged access to integrating and enforcing change management processes.
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  Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution

  Configuration assessment lets organizations take a proactive stance to protect the data center by evaluating the entire IT infrastructure configuration against a series of standards-based benchmarks. But not all configuration assessment tools are created equal. Learn how solutions like Tripwire Enterprise support key requirements such as automated configuration assessment to help ease the burden on IT of achieving and maintaining compliance, securing the IT infrastructure, and generating evidence for mandatory audits. Read the white paper

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  Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance

  Companies that adopt ISO 27001 demonstrate their commitment to high levels of information Security. With Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their configurations measure up to ISO 27001 specifications. Find out in this paper how to gain immediate visibility into the state of your systems, and save time and effort by automating the process.
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  Challenges and Opportunities of PCI

  Controls-particularly those around change and configuration issues-are critical to meeting the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) mandates. As it happens, they also are critical to delivering the sustained and continuous improvement to stabilize the IT environment and avert risk that define top-performing companies. Find out why change auditing carries so much weight.
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  The PCI Data Security Standard

  Have questions about the requirements of the PCI standard? This white paper has the answers. Here you can learn more about the 12 steps to data security under the PCI mandate, with a focus on its administrative and technical elements, as well as the validation requirements.
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  Tripwire PCI DSS Solutions: Automated, Continuous Compliance

  PCI compliance is not a "set it and forget it" option. Compliance to its requirements is an ongoing process. With the help of the Tripwire solution to validate compliance and maintain a controlled approach to system, application and data security, you can spend fewer IT resources on audits and more time on strategy and innovation.
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  Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors to CCM Success

  Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) points out that in today's complex IT infrastructures, businesses need a single, independent source for enforcing and reporting on a change policy across the organization. Learn the 10 key elements that are important to Configuration Audit and Control solutions so that you can improve your systems management productivity, reduce costs and sustain configuration visibility.
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  IT Service Management Metrics that Matter

  What are they? The ones that provide definitive guidance on where to start with IT best practices, and that give the highest rate of performance return for a business. In this white paper, you will learn how four metrics have a significant impact on your ability to control system availability, compliance, and risk and operational performance. Read the white paper

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  Enforcing IT Change Management Policy

  Having change management policies and controls is good. Enforcing them is better—and required, if you hope to avoid poor audit findings, delayed project deliveries, and increased vulnerabilities. Learn the principles behind the "Three C's" for successfully managing change: Culture, control and credibility. Read the white paper

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  Beyond Disaster Recovery

  How effective is your company's business continuity plan? Perhaps not as effective as you'd like to think, especially if there are flaws in your change control processes. Read on to discover why the ability to manage and prioritize change is critical to ensure that business continues after a disaster or an outage. Read the white paper