Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Firewalls are no longer sufficient; bad actors have demonstrated ...

My previous posting described how Windows 7 lets two programs update the same file at the same time, with the inevitable result, data corruption. It’s an accident waiting to happen. And the same is ...

If you have not yet deployed FIM perhaps now is a good time to ask “why not”. If your organization is now addressing data loss prevention (DLP) by minimizing the risk of damage by malicious code and ...

The ability to store and manage large amounts of data has become a critical requirement for a variety of embedded devices. Car infotainment units, industrial automation systems, medical devices, media ...

In a previous article, we explained why it is worth licensing File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) rather than using open-source ...

CHICAGO (June 21, 2011) –Trustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, today announced the release of its cloud-based file integrity monitoring (FIM) solution. FIM ...

Syncplify Server! now features tamper-proof audit trails with cryptographic verification, raising the bar for SFTP ...

There’s a lot more to file integrity monitoring than simply detecting change. Although FIM is a common policy requirement, there are many FIM capabilities and processes you can elect to implement or ...

Last blog I ran out of time and space. This blog covers how FIM works and where to search for vendors that provide related tools. Here’s how File Integrity Monitoring works. The files of interest are ...