Six Ways to Employ FIM Toward Security and Compliance

Posted on by Mike Shinn

“What is advanced FIM – file integrity monitoring? Leading FIM tools all inspect more than just files, they detect threats, prompt rapid response, and provide a foundation for compliance.”  When there’s turnover and shortage of training, skills or personnel, companies turn to software, SaaS, and process automation from the cloud to help them run, manage […]

Cloud Compliance Tools: How the Cloud Complicates Compliance, and What You Can Do About It

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

(The cloud poses a host of data compliance challenges, including lack of visibility, confusion over whose responsibility it is to protect data, and the lack of an ideal standard compliance architecture. What’s needed is cloud compliance tools and a platform for security and compliance.) The cloud allows organizations to abstract core parts of their businesses, […]

Meet PCI-DSS and Compliance Requirements With File Integrity Monitoring Tools (FIM) From Atomicorp

Posted on by Mike Shinn

(File integrity monitoring tools are crucial for meeting security and compliance requirements, but they’re also critical to answering the most important question when something happens: What changed? The following blog and FIM whitepaper explore compliance challenges and empowering agents such as FIM.) Compliance challenges. Manually going through logs. Auditing. Tired human eyes missing evidence of […]

Atomic OSSEC Facilitates HIPAA and Wide Compliance

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

(Healthcare information is under attack in the form of cyber theft and fraud. Many organizations don’t have sufficient personnel or budget to track and control where private data is going and how it’s being used. This can bring HIPAA violations and fines. Atomicorp provides a HIPAA compliance solution through strong audit control mechanisms.) The Healthcare […]

How CIS Controls Lead to PCI-DSS Compliance

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a collection of security controls that businesses and government agencies that collect credit card data are required to implement. Founded in 2004, PCI-DSS consists of 12 general requirements and associated sub-controls. Any organization that processes any type of payment card (debit or credit) must meet these requirements […]

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Small Business/SMB Alert: Why Workload and Cloud Workload Protection Matter

Posted on by Mike Shinn

What is a workload? Among non-techy or more traditional sorts, ‘workload’ means the things we have on our plates, those things we must attend to or accomplish. But workload has a more modern meaning in the context of computing disciplines such as compute/analyze/store, cloud workload automation, cloud workload protection/cloud workload security, and an enigmatic thing […]

Endpoint Security and Moving to the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

(What is endpoint security? Atomicorp whitepaper provides seven easy steps to give endpoint security and secure access service edge, aka SASE, a boost. Read the whitepaper.) What is an endpoint and how many do you have? If you don’t know, chances are you struggle with endpoint security. Many vendors will tell you endpoint security is […]

OSSEC for FIM – 6 Whys and Ways to Security and Compliance

Posted on by Casey Priester

Leverage open source security (OSSEC) for file integrity monitoring (FIM), easier compliance, and to accelerate overall enterprise-strength security. 2020’s shift to large-scale remote work and distributed computing forced IT teams to roll out new or expanded services just to keep the business running. 2021 must be about reinforcing security and compliance across this rapidly- and […]

99 Controls That Security Practitioners Need to Address PCI-DSS Compliance

Posted on by Mike Shinn

Anything that touches anything else that touches cardholder data is part of your state of security and must be included in your security program. The following blog discusses the importance of PCI compliance, how… with clouds forming… visibility and secure control can get lost, and what you can do about it. What is PCI and […]

The Appeal of Open Source Security (OSSEC) to Small and Midsize Businesses

Posted on by Mike Shinn

An open source DevSecOps approach enables small to midsize enterprises to keep pace with security threats as digital business expands. Atomic OSSEC intrusion detection and Atomic Protector cloud workload protection solutions reflect this open source DevSecOps approach, helping small IT teams to rapidly secure the services and apps they must deliver. Cyber-attacks are getting increasingly […]