Tripwire is a leading provider of security, compliance and IT operations solutions for enterprises, industrial organizations, service providers and government agencies.
Founded in 1997, Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Tripwire solutions are based on high-fidelity asset visibility and deep endpoint intelligence combined with business context; together these solutions integrate and automate security and IT operations. Tripwire’s portfolio of enterprise-class solutions includes configuration and policy management; file integrity monitoring, vulnerability management, log management, and reporting and analytics.
Steering the Ship
Dhrupad Trivedi: Mr. Dhrupad Trivedi has been the President of Industrial IT at Tripwire, Inc. since August 28, 2016. Mr. Trivedi has been Executive Vice President of Industrial IT Solutions at Belden Inc. since April 2013 and Executive Vice President of Network Security Solutions since August 2016. He served as Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Belden Inc. until April 2013 and also served as its Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Trivedi served as President of Trapeze Networks business of Belden Inc. since January 2010. Mr. Trivedi served as Vice President of corporate development at JDS Uniphase Corporation, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions and other strategic corporate initiatives. During his 11-year tenure at JDS, he served as Vice President and General Manager of transmission business. Mr. Trivedi holds
a BE in engineering from the University of Bombay, an MS and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Universities of Alabama and Massachusetts respectively and an MBA from Duke University.
"Our IT and OT security solutions provide a comprehensive suite of technologies to view, monitor, and respond to threats from the enterprise business network into the plant environment," says Dhrupad.
Award Winning Offerings
The foundational controls from Tripwire are:
•Tripwire® Enterprise: It pairs the industry’s most respected file integrity monitoring and security configuration management to provide real-time change intelligence and threat detection. For the compliance officer, it delivers proactive system hardening and automated compliance enforcement — resulting in a reduction of audit cycles and cost. Tripwire Enterprise delivers automation and guidance for rapid repair of broken or insecure misconfigurations and integrates with SIEMs, ITSM, IT-GRC workflow systems and more.
• Tripwire IP360™: It proactively discovers, profiles, and assesses the vulnerability risk of all wired and wireless devices on an organization’s network. Tripwire IP360 enables fast detection of vulnerabilities, prioritization of risk, remediation management through reporting and ticketing integrations, and risk-prioritized exposure assessment.
• Tripwire Log Center®: It provides a secure and reliable log collection to add real-time intelligence to machine data, with security analytics and forensics for rapid incident detection and response. Tripwire Log Center integrates with an existing infrastructure and includes a growing library of available correlation rules that empower the team to monitor, detect, and quickly respond to threats in an organization’s environment.
• Tripwire Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM): It automates continuous configuration and compliance assessment. With its agentless architecture (no software to install on endpoints), management is simplified and cost-effective. Integrated with other Belden network security solutions, Tripwire CCM provides new security capabilities for rapidly expanding industrial cybersecurity needs.
Comprehensive capabilities
Tripwire’s products integrate with a wide array of third-party products offering a multitude of benefits and use-cases in distinct categories namely threat intelligence, network security, analytics and security information & event management (SIEM), IT service management (ITSM), integrated access management (IAM), industrial control systems (ICS), factory automation systems (FAS), government risk compliance (GRC) and DevOps workflow tools.
Integrations automate the sharing and validating of critical data and intelligence, delivering organizations significant operational efficiencies. They also enable better collaboration between IT operations and security teams, driving higher productivity. Thereby, allowing an organization significant advantage against operational inefficiencies with Tripwire integrations.
Future Plans
Tripwire continues to invest heavily in innovation, with more than 40 patents and counting. Tripwire aims to keep working to increase the value that its portfolio delivers. Likewise, in 2016 Tripwire announced a “no-touch” security configuration management solution for industrial environments. In 2017, the company announced Tripwire Cloud Management Assessor for managing configurations in the cloud and new Tripwire IP360 capabilities for scanning Docker containers for vulnerabilities. In 2018, the company launched Tripwire Industrial Visibility that provides visibility, monitoring and threat mitigation across the complete OT landscape. Alongside, the company also announced its Tripwire® for DevOps which offers a complete view of security and compliance risk within DevOps application infrastructure by adding configuration assessment capabilities to the existing vulnerability management capabilities. Additionally, Tripwire continues to grow its library of policy and platform combinations – the most comprehensive in the industry – and its intelligence on new vulnerabilities and patches as they arise. As customer needs change, cyber threats increase, technology landscapes evolve, and new regulations surface, Tripwire will continue to help organizations build strong foundations for security, compliance and operational excellence.