Home Properties provides a searchable online database of rental properties.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Multi-family real estate investment trust, Home Properties (www.homeproperties.com), has chosen configuration assessment and auditing solution, Tripwire Enterprise (www.tripwire.com), to improve security and ensure total visibility of change activity across the company’s IT systems.
Just as its apartment residents expect a secure living environment at the company’s hundreds of properties, Home Properties expects the same of its complex, enterprise data center. According to data center compliance and infrastructure management software developer Tripwire in its Thursday announcement, Tripwire Enterprise now provides Home Properties both extensive file integrity monitoring and automatic change auditing capabilities and a method for supporting change control policies.
“With over 37,000 apartment units in our real estate portfolio, our IT systems are in a continuous state of processing information and updating data,” Home Properties information systems vice president Chris Berson said in a statement. “Tripwire Enterprise gives us a single point of control for detecting changes to servers, network devices, firewalls and application systems, providing accurate and timely information through alerts and customizable reports. This technology will play an important role in helping protect the stability of our critical production systems so we can maintain high availability for our users.”
Additionally, Tripwire provides configuration assessment tests, evaluating every change for compliance with security and operational policies, which Home Properties will use for its critical systems, including a property management application that is key to its financial management processes.
Tripwire Enterprise’s file integrity monitoring also provides Home Properties with automatic alerts about any suspicious change activity. If an issue arises, Tripwire offers remediation assistance to quickly fix out-of-compliance settings, and automatically produces an audit trail that can be easily generated in reports used by system administrators to meet compliance regulations.
Tripwire Enterprise’s ability to track changes and assess configurations across physical and virtual environments strengthens Home Properties’ position to expand its operations, while maintaining visibility and control of its infrastructure.
