Announcing OSSEC Virtual Con2020

Wednesday, June 24 & Thursday, June 25 Atomicorp is proud to host a fully virtual conference on Wednesday, June 24 and Thursday, June 25. The virtual conference is open to the OSSEC community to share technical insights, lessons learned, and best practices for OSSEC. See Full Schedule   Day 1 – Conference Sessions Conference topics […]

Atomicorp & Intensity Analytics Collaborate to Deliver Identity Assurance Compliance Across Platforms

Atomicorp’s cloud and server security and compliance systems now work with Intensity Analytics’ TickStream.Key.ID to red flag potential account compromises which automatically trigger suspicious activity alerts and support an adaptive security model. In addition, TickStream.Key.ID provides improved visibility into and accountability for privileged access accounts to protect against insider threats. Atomicorp’s products enable customers to […]

PCI Compliance in the Cloud: File Integrity Monitoring and Workload Auditing

This is part 3 of a 7-part series about PCI DSS compliance in the cloud. How to Support Continuous PCI Compliance with Workload Auditing and SIM/FIM    PCI requires organizations to conduct “continuous compliance” on all systems touching cardholder data, rather than just annual PCI audits.  SIM and FIM technologies detect changes to the workload, […]

Security State: The Invisible Condition That Impacts Your PCI

This is part 2 of a 7-part series on PCI compliance in the cloud. Most businesses have assets in their environments that they aren’t aware exist. For instance, if a virtual machine is de-provisioned in the cloud environment, its file system may still live on − unprotected, unaudited, and but still inside the scope of […]

Who’s Responsible for PCI Compliance of Your Cloud Workload

  This is part 1 of seven-part series on achieving PCI compliance in the cloud.   Shared Responsibility isn’t as easy as it sounds When businesses sign a service level agreement with a cloud provider, they may believe the provider will protect everything in their cloud− infrastructure and applications alike.  But in each contract there is […]

Podcast: What is OSSEC and Why People Use It

OSSEC, which is short for open source security, was founded in 2004. It is an open source project for cybersecurity and delivers the most robust endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities available to enterprises today. Scott Shinn, OSSEC project manager, introduced its most recent update to 3.0 at the OSSEC conference this past April. In […]

What the Capital One Breach Shows Us About Cloud Workload Protection

What happened?  Many of us woke up to the news that the data of 100 million people were exposed when Capital One’s Amazon servers were breached by Seattle-based hacker.   While information about the specifics of the breach may never be known by the public, this staggering data loss is exceptionally instructive for organizations moving critical […]

Achieving AWS Compliance: Considerations for IT and Cloud Security Teams

Most every IT organization has wrestled with achieving regulatory compliance, meeting auditors requirements, and reporting to management and other stakeholders. Moving workloads to the cloud introduces new wrinkles to an already thorny set of problems. For organizations moving to the Amazon cloud, it’s critical that they understand their new and changing issues and responsibilities associated […]

Improving OSSEC Manageability, Security, and Compliance with Atomic Enterprise OSSEC

With more than 500,000 downloads per year and hundreds of thousands of active installs, OSSEC is the world’s most widely used open source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS).  OSSEC is used by organizations in virtually every industry and geography to meet critical security and compliance requirements both on-premise and in the cloud. The open source […]

Leveraging OSSEC for Cloud Compliance and Security

Moving to the cloud presents a host of security and compliance responsibilities for enterprise security and IT teams.  While cloud providers handle hardware and infrastructure, cloud workloads themselves must be secured by the enterprise. Traditional on-premise controls and network security don’t work in the perimeter-less virtual environment of the public cloud. OSSEC offers a free […]