Change Audit & Configuration Management: Tripwire

 Key Benefits

Configuration Assessment Eases compliance with industry standards. Tripwire provides configuration assessment tests that map to defined industry standards, such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI), Center for Internet Security (Tripwire Enterprise 7 has been awarded CIS Security Software Certification), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), COBIT and many others.

Change Auditing
Audits configuration change across the enterprise. Tripwire assesses and detects change across the entire IT infrastructure, including virtual environments, alerting for unauthorized changes and automatically triggering remediation. · Minimizes enterprise risk. Tripwire Enterprise 7 lessens the risk associated with system change, immediately detecting unauthorized change, and automatically correcting problems or allowing IT to quickly intervene.

Reporting
Offers comprehensive and flexible reporting. Tripwire includes thousands of pre-defined standard reports that provide real-time views of configuration assessments and change auditing activities. Users can also easily create custom reports with drill-down capabilities.

Reconciliation
Reconciles configuration change with leading CMDBs. Tripwire Enterprise integrates with leading CMDB and IT Service Management Solutions including BMC Atrium CMDB, HP Universal CMDB, CA Service Desk and CA CMDB. · Remediates unauthorized and unplanned system change. Tripwire can roll back systems to a previous known good state when an improper system change occurs, triggering third party tools to quickly and automatically remediate issues.

Compliance and Security
Mitigates risks. Tripwire detects unauthorized change, reducing risks and costs by discovering and managing security and compliance vulnerabilities · Minimizes manual efforts. Tripwire's independent detective controls are the only way to know whether your other security products have or have not been compromised.

CMDB
Ensures accuracy of CMDB data. Tripwire ensures every change is matched with change policy - or recognized as an exception - before being entered into the CMDB. Accelerates success of ITIL and ITSM initiatives. Tripwire closes the loop and gives you the information you need to enforce process adoption and achieve process improvement. Change/Configuration Automation · Reduces unplanned work. Tripwire ensures every change is matched with change policy - or recognized as an exception - before being entered into the CMDB. · Reduces process and tool circumvention. Tripwire promotes broader use of automated tools through increased visibility of their circumvention. Availability · Reduces system outages. Tripwire minimizes the types of changes that can cause disruption, discovering unauthorized changes and configurations before they create problems. · Reduces SLA penalties. Because Tripwire helps eliminate unauthorized change and reduces unplanned work and firefighting, it also reduces unscheduled downtime that can compromise service level agreements.