Tripwire Adds New VP of Services; Kevin McKay Lends Business and Technical Expertise to Expanding Professional Services Offerings

Business Wire, Sept 14, 2005

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tripwire(R), Inc., the world leader in Change Auditing software, announced today the appointment of industry veteran Kevin McKay to vice president of services. McKay's deep business and technical background in change and configuration management (CCM) and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management approach provides Tripwire with the strategic leadership needed to provide cutting-edge professional services and grow its enterprise business. E[acute accent]"Kevin's track record for driving services revenue and increasing customer satisfaction coupled with his deep knowledge of control frameworks and change management is a huge asset to Tripwire," said Jim Johnson, CEO of Tripwire. "Kevin provides the type of seasoned experience and leadership that Tripwire needs. We look forward to him driving and extending Tripwire's professional services group." E[acute accent]Kevin McKay has over 20 years of experience in the high technology and enterprise software industries. As vice president of services, Kevin is responsible for driving the growth, direction and strategic intent of Tripwire's Professional Services. E[acute accent]Prior to joining Tripwire, Kevin was vice president of professional services at Marketlive, a leading e-commerce technology company. During his tenure at Marketlive, the Professional Services organization grew revenue quarter over quarter by over 56 percent. Prior to that, Kevin served as director of technical marketing at Serena Software, one of the largest change and configuration management companies, where he was instrumental in the development of ITIL- and CCM-based assessments offerings that provide Serena's consultants with a toolkit to jumpstart process improvement engagements with its customers. E[acute accent]"I'm thrilled to join Tripwire at such a promising stage in the company's lifecycle," said Kevin McKay. "Tripwire's thought leadership and reputation for technical excellence were huge draws for me. I look forward to expanding what is already a solid enterprise offering and helping take Tripwire to the next stage of growth." E[acute accent]Tripwire Professional Services offers three tailored service levels specifically designed to address compliance implementation needs and requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) and the newly developed payment card standard (PCI). The offerings are delivered through Tripwire consulting services and occur on-site at customer locations.

E[acute accent]--Change Audit Deployment: For organizations that want to leverage the Tripwire software framework to improve their change detection and alerting capabilities for audits.

E[acute accent]--Change Audit Deployment and Reconciliation: For organizations seeking to map all production changes back to authorized work orders so they can stay within audit compliance requirements.

E[acute accent]--Change Audit and Process Optimization: For organizations looking to implement automated detection and reconciliation processes for all production changes.

E[acute accent]About Tripwire Solutions

E[acute accent]A comprehensive change auditing solution requires three critical pieces: process, people and technology. Correspondingly, Tripwire Solutions include both software and professional services offerings. Its software offerings include Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire for Servers, which is a proven change monitoring and analysis solution for servers and network infrastructure running in small to enterprise organizations. Tripwire Professional Services offers a complete set of services to help organizations define change control processes, integrate Tripwire software with existing Configuration and Change Management systems, as well as Tripwire software implementation and tuning.

E[acute accent]About Tripwire, Inc.

E[acute accent]Tripwire is the leading provider of change auditing software and services. Tripwire solutions enable enterprises to prove that their IT change management controls are effective and their infrastructure is safe. Tripwire software provides proof of regulatory compliance, instills accountability for change, ensures the security of business-critical systems, and increases the overall availability of IT services. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore., with offices in the UK and Japan. For more information visit: http://www.tripwire.com.