Monitoring Containers - A FIM perspective

One of the common asks I get as a consultant at the moment is how best to approach monitoring containers with "FIM"... but modern Kubernetes/container platforms (e.g. Red Hat OpenShift ) change a lot of the assumptions that traditional host-based security monitoring relied on si…

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Architecture Anti-Patterns

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and Security Configuration Management (SCM) platforms like the ones I currently work with at Fortra are deceptively simple on the surface: deploy/configure endpoints, define rules/assessments, schedule tasks, evaluate results, report.

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TE External Rule Elements Example

One of the most powerful things I do with Tripwire Enterprise is add external sources to TE's change audit tracking. Whether it's an API, or a device with an unsupported SSH config, this workflow enables me to capture data and bring it along side all the rest of the compliance a…

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Trigger a scan with the CCM REST API

On the theme of recent posts about scripting (and automating scanning - if you're still doing this manually, you're doing something wrong IMHO!), here's a useful script I put together to help demo how to trigger a compliance scan with Tripwire's Configuration Compliance Manager

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