Ruby Tuesday Selects Tripwire Enterprise; Leading Restaurant Company Chooses Tripwire Software to Audit All IT Change, Helping Ensure Guest Data Security

Business Wire, June 6, 2006

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Guests have always visited Ruby Tuesday (NYSE:RI) for its delicious food and welcoming hospitality, and now the company is building on its commitment to guests by choosing Tripwire Enterprise to ensure that all credit card data is safe and secure. Ruby Tuesday will rely on Tripwire Enterprise 5.5 as part of its overall IT best practices, auditing changes made to its information systems that store, process or support credit cardholder data.

Unauthorized and unintended changes, whether they be accidental, benign, or malicious, can compromise consumer data security, and with it customer confidence and loyalty. Tripwire enables Ruby Tuesday to analyze and remediate issues that could otherwise go unnoticed, thereby improving data protection and satisfying specific file integrity monitoring and change control requirements outlined in the new Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Standard.

"Ruby Tuesday is committed to being our guests' first choice, and the security of their credit card information is vital," said Nick Ibrahim, Ruby Tuesday's Chief Information Officer. "We have chosen Tripwire Enterprise to help protect cardholder data."

Tripwire Enterprise acts as a detective control, alerting Ruby Tuesday to any system change across the layers of its IT services -- from database structures and directory services, to middleware, servers and network devices. This is important as one small change can be the difference between data security and a data incident.

"Guest loyalty is increasingly linked to guest's knowing that their credit card information is safe and secure," said Jim Johnson, Tripwire CEO. "Tripwire helps provide this confidence to Ruby Tuesday because any information system change that could affect data security will be immediately detected and acted on."

About Ruby Tuesday

The Ruby Tuesday concept was born more than 30 years ago, when current Chairman and CEO Sandy Beall opened the first restaurant near the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Since then, the company has grown to over 825 company-owned and franchised restaurants in 42 states and 15 countries around the world. Ruby Tuesday is aggressively franchising territories in the western United States and countries around the world. Ruby Tuesday, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:RI). More information about the company can be found at www.rubytuesday.com.

About Tripwire Solutions

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, a proven change monitoring and analysis solution for servers running in small to mid-size organizations. Tripwire Professional Services offers a complete set of services ranging from product implementation and tuning to compliance related consulting, ITIL implementation, and organizational change management.

About Tripwire, Inc.

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/.>

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