How to Comply with PCI DSS 4.0 Requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1

The countdown to compliance is in its final stretch. With the third and final phase of PCI DSS 4.0 requirements taking effect on March 31, 2025, organizations are under increasing pressure to ensure their client-side security measures meet the new requirements. At Imperva, we’re committed to...

Achieve Security Compliance with Wazuh File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring FIM is an IT security control that monitors and detects file changes in computer systems. It helps organizations audit important files and system configurations by routinely scanning and verifying their integrity. Most information security standards mandate the use of FI...

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Extends FIM with Real-Time Monitoring of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data and Configuration Change Detection on Network Devices

Introducing FIM 4.0 with File Access Monitoring FAM and Agentless FIM to ensure compliance with the new PCI 4.0 File Integrity Monitoring FIM solutions are essential for virtually any organization to help identify suspicious activities across critical system files and registries, diagnose changes...

Agentless FIM for Detecting Network Configuration Changes

Dealing with multiple network administrators making frequent configuration changes with a monitoring solution that provides insights into device change without causing resource constraints. The performance and capabilities of a network device are entirely dependent upon its configuration settings...

Navigating the EU NIS2 Directive

How Qualys Cybersecurity Solutions Ensure Compliance The European Union’s revised Network and Information Security NIS2 Directive is a comprehensive cybersecurity regulation aimed at bolstering the resilience of critical entities and essential services across the EU. As organizations grapple with...

Qualys FIM Playbook for PCI 4.0

This File Integrity Monitoring FIM playbook is your comprehensive guide to establishing and maintaining an effective FIM program aligned with the latest PCI DSS 4.0 standards. By meticulously monitoring and ensuring the integrity of vital files and configurations, your organization can bolster it...

PCI DSS 4.0 FIM Requirements Simplified with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring FIM is one of the essential requirements under PCI DSS 4.0. It helps organizations detect and respond to unauthorized changes in critical system files, configuration files, or content files, which is crucial for maintaining the security of cardholder data. Organizations...

How Qualys Drives PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for File Integrity Monitoring

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS is a well-known rule for compliance by merchants and entities involved in payment card processing. The new PCI DSS 4.0 standard specifies a broad range of technical and process requirements to ensure the safety of payment cardholder data or...

Protecting your business with Wazuh: The open source security platform

Today, businesses face a variety of security challenges like cyber attacks, compliance requirements, and endpoint security administration. The threat landscape constantly evolves, and it can be overwhelming for businesses to keep up with the latest security trends. Security teams use processes an...

Is your FIM Solution Cost and Time Efficient?

Virtually every security professional and corporate executive is painfully aware of recent escalations in cybersecurity threats. No one wants to be a headline or get hit with the typical $4.5 million price tag to remediate an incident IBM Study. Almost every security team will agree that file...

Threat hunting with MITRE ATT&CK and Wazuh

Threat hunting is the process of looking for malicious activity and its artifacts in a computer system or network. Threat hunting is carried out intermittently in an environment regardless of whether or not threats have been discovered by automated security solutions. Some threat actors may stay...

A Free Solution to Protect Your Business from 6 Biggest Cyber Threats in 2022

For the last few years, the cybersecurity threat landscape has gotten progressively more complex and dangerous. The online world is now rife with data thieves, extortionists, and even state actors looking to exploit vulnerabilities in businesses' digital defenses. And unfortunately — the bad guys...

Has your WordPress site been backdoored by a skimmer?

Skimmers and other threat actors are backdooring websites, and WordPress instances in particular, according to a recently released report. Researchers at Sucuri say attackers have developed methods to make sure that their grip on the infected site is not easily removed by applying the next update...

SANS Experts: 4 Emerging Enterprise Attack Techniques

In a recent report, a panel of SANS Institute experts broke down key takeaways and emerging attack techniques from this year’s RSA Security Conference. The long and short of it? This next wave of malicious methodologies isn’t on the horizon — it’s here. When it comes to supply-chain and ransomwar...

Monitor Windows Registry Changes with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

With Windows registries storing a large number of programs and OS security settings and a large amount of raw data, threat actors have begun to use those registries as a data store for their malicious activity. It is therefore imperative for organizations to monitor changes in Windows registries ...

Reinforce Defense with File Reputation and Trusted Source Intelligence in Qualys FIM

Monitoring change events in the file system is both a crucial aspect of security and a critical compliance requirement. A file integrity monitoring tool functions as an essential layer of defense to identify illicit activities across critical system files and registries, diagnose changes, and sen...

Solorigate/Sunburst : FireEye Breach Leveraged SolarWinds Orion Software

Update Dec 23, 2020: Added new section describing how to reduce risk with File Integrity Monitoring. Update Dec 22, 2020: FireEye Red Team tools & Solorigate/SUNBURST On December 13, SolarWinds released a security advisory regarding a successful supply-chain attack on the Orion management platfor...

PT-2020-16307 · Dual Dhcp Dns · Dual Dhcp Dns Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Dual DHCP DNS Server version 7.40 Description: An issue was discovered due to insufficient access restrictions in the default installation directory, allowing an attacker to elevate privileges by replacing the DualServer.exe binary...

Qualys Adds Cloud Agent Linux Support for AWS ARM-Based EC2 Instances

Releasing this week May 26, 2020, Qualys adds Cloud Agent Linux support for Amazon Web Services EC2 instances powered by ARM processors including the new Graviton2 processor. AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over...

Real-Time Alerting and Incident Management for Unauthorized Changes

The security landscape is constantly changing, and you need to adopt proactive measures to stay ahead of security breaches by being extremely vigilant about every little change in your environment. In our previous blog, we discussed how you can leverage the ready-to-use monitoring profiles in you...