E-security distributor AfricaSD today launched its distribution of Tripwire, a leading change control software that ensures important aspects such as availability, security and compliance within an organisation`s infrastructure.
Tripwire software reduces trouble-shooting time and enables rapid discovery and recovery. Immediate detection of change on multi-vendor devices across the enterprise enables, as is claimed, the fastest possible restoration to a known and trusted state. Tripwire solutions integrate quite easily into an IT department`s current processes and products, such as the popular Enterprise Management Solutions Remedy AR System, HP OpenView Service Desk, IBM Tivoli and more.
As the foundation for a layered security strategy, Tripwire software detects and pinpoints unauthorised change. Trip wire is considered one of the top applications for host-based intrusion detection, and therefore offers companies the only way to know, with certainty, that systems remain uncompromised, and in a known and trusted state. Tripwire software can also "guard the guard", that is, monitor the integrity of other security products (eg firewalls, anti-virus scanners) and immediately notify system administrators of any changes that could allow an attacker to infiltrate and damage systems.
Tripwire identifies and reports the sources of change, enabling IT to, as Tripwire puts it, "manage by fact". Tripwire allows companies to close the loop on change management, validate internal processes, and capture an audit trail of changes to servers and network devices. Through these processes, Tripwire enables IT audit preparedness and regulatory compliance, and instils accountability for internal policies.
"Tripwire is scalable, manageable, host-based, you can draw down to the OS security level, you can load it onto network devices and very importantly it is host-based thus saving bandwidth and making it very reliable," says AfricaSD Technical Specialist Francois Marais.
"What makes Tripwire so special is that it is intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and change control integrated into one package and is capable of plugging into various other software applications," says Marais.
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AfricaSD offers a wide range of high quality solutions to provide IT departments with a solution that is customised and relevant to their IT environment and company policies.
AfricaSD offers solutions with the following categories: content filters, anti-virus, patch management, firewalls, network devices, reporting and monitoring, vulnerability assessment, asset and licence management, encryption, wireless technology, IPS/IDS, change control, disaster recovery, authentication, compliance, software deployment, help-desk and open source.
For more information on these solutions and a courtesy assessment or free software evaluations, you can contact AfricaSD`s Solution Consultants at (012) 663-8093.