TECH NOTE (TRIPWIRE)UAE Information Assurance
Keeping sensitive data and assets safe is the goal of regulatory cybersecurity
frameworks such as the United Arab Emirates Information Assurance Standard.
Mitigating cyber threats and ensuring the development of a secure national
information and communications infrastructure and cyberspace is a strategic
priority for the UAE. To this end, the UAE Information Assurance (IA) Standard
acts as a critical element to provide requirements for elevating the level of IA
across all implementing entities in the UAE.
However, the benefits of this technology adoption come with a rapidlyevolving set of cyber threats. These threats stem from a wide range ofsources—hacktivists, issue-motivated groups, and organized cybercrime
syndicates—and represent national security concerns that can potentiallydisrupt critical national services and compromise critical information assets.
Compliance with these standards will raise the level of national IA andhelp the UAE progress towards a more resilient national information andcommunication infrastructure and cyberspace.
The purpose of the UAE IA Standard is to provide requirements to raise theminimum level of protection of information assets and supporting systems
across all implementing entities in the UAE. The following pages show how
Fortra’s Tripwire solutions map to its technical controls.

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Asset Management

The technical control covered in Tripwire®
Enterprise will assist in the compliance
auditing and management of removable
media policies. This establishes thebaseline for the general use andconnection of IT networks.

Physical and Environmental
Security

The objective of this policy is to prevent
loss, damage, theft or compromise ofassets and interruption to the entity’s
activities. The technical control coveredin Tripwire Enterprise will ensure thatunattended equipment has appropriateprotection.

Communications

This policy establishes the protection of
information being changed within andbetween entities.

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Operations Management

The purpose of this policy is to ensure
the effective operational control of thesecurity functions related to informationand information systems.

Access Control

The objective of this policy is to instituteaccess control at the user, application,
network and operating system level aswell as for mobile computing.

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Dashboard in Tripwire EnterpriseUAE IA recommends checking theintegrity of the assets and the regularreview of system security, systemlogs and the integrity of system
configurations.

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What is Tripwire Enterprise?

Tripwire Enterprise is a security configuration management (SCM) suite that provides fully integrated solutions for policy, fileintegrity and remediation management. Organizations can use these solutions together for a complete end-to-end SCM
solution, or use its file integrity monitoring or policy management solutions on their own to address today’s pressing security andcompliance challenges—while building a foundation that positions them to address tomorrow’s.
The suite lets security, compliance and operations teams rapidly achieve a foundational level of security across your entire
enterprise, including on-premise, cloud and industrial assets, by reducing the attack surface, increasing system integrity anddelivering continuous compliance.
Tripwire has taken its original host-based intrusion detection tool, which could simply detect changes to files and folders, andexpanded it into a robust file integrity monitoring (FIM) solution, able to monitor detailed system integrity: files, directories,registries, configuration parameters, DLLs, ports, services, protocols, etc. Additional enterprise integrations provide granular
endpoint intelligence that supports threat detection and policy and audit compliance.

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