File Integrity Monitoring Comparison
File integrity monitoring is critical for security and configuration compliance initiatives, and is a requirement for PCI compliance. How does nCircle File Integrity Monitor™ compare to Tripwire’s file integrity monitoring solution? Take a look at the chart below to find out.
| nCircle | Tripwire | |
|---|---|---|
| Agentless auditing – no software on the endpoints | ||
| File integrity monitoring only or as a component of full policy compliance auditing | ||
| Part of comprehensive security and compliance audit suite including integrated vulnerability management | ||
| Alert on file checksum change and return value of checksum | ||
| Active and passive asset discovery |
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| Real world risk rating |
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| Lowest deployment cost |
nCircle File Integrity Monitor provides an agentless file integrity auditing solution that gives you the ability to monitor an asset’s details all the way down to the file level without requiring software agents on the monitored system. nCircle’s file integrity monitoring solution discovers significant file integrity detail, such as:
- File size
- Version
- When it was created
- When it was modified
- The login name of any user who modifies the file
- Its attributes (e.g., Read-Only, Hidden, System, etc.)
As an extra safeguard against file tampering, the solution also monitors file checksums – MD5 or SHA-1 on Windows-based systems and MD5 or any user-defined hash algorithm on Unix-based systems - providing cryptography-based monitoring for file changes.
For more information visit the nCircle File Integrity Monitor product page.

