PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, today announced that company chief technology officer Dwayne Melancon will be speaking and participating in three panel discussions and one session at RSA Conference USA 2014. The conference takes place February 24-28, 2014, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Details of the sessions follow. All sessions will take place at Moscone Center.
Session: “Closing
the Cybersecurity Skills Gap – It’s Past Time” (session code
PROF-M01)
Who: Dwayne Melancon, chief technology officer,
Tripwire, Inc.; Javvad Malik, senior analyst, 451
Research; Andy Ellis, chief security officer, Akamai
Technologies, Inc.; Jane Lute, president and CEO, Council
on CyberSecurity; and Mike Assante, director, SANS
Institute.
When: February 24, 2014, 9:15 a.m. – 10:15
a.m.
In this professional development panel, participants will
discuss a recent study that examined how cybersecurity academic programs
measure up to the demand for new skills and whether cybersecurity
defenders should be groomed with broad skills or specialize in technical
areas.
Session: “Diablo
Security: What Can Infosec Learn from Video Games?” (session code
MASH-T07B)
Who: Dwayne Melancon, chief technology officer,
Tripwire, Inc.
When: February 25, 2014, 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
In
this security mashup session, security professionals will learn
gamification techniques that leverage the skills, weapons and
countermeasures that can make their day job both fun and heroic.
Session: “DevOps/Security
Myths Debunked” (session code ASEC-W03)
Who: Dwayne
Melancon, chief technology officer, Tripwire, Inc.; David Mortman, chief
security architect, Dell
Enstratius; Gene Kim, author, IT
Revolution; Josh Corman, chief technology officer, Sonatype;
and Nick Galbreath, vice president of engineering, IPONWEB.
When:
February 26, 2014, 10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
In this application
security panel, panelists will address a number of DevOps myths and show
attendees how to embrace DevOps in order to maintain an appropriate
security profile in their organizations.
Session: “Disrupting
the Progression of a Cyber Attack” (session code HT-R04A)
Who:
Dwayne Melancon, chief technology officer, Tripwire, Inc.; and Brian
Honan, owner and CEO, BH
Consulting.
When: February 27, 2014, 12:00 p.m. – 12:20
p.m.
By analyzing an adversary’s steps, security professionals are
better positioned to segment, analyze and mitigate an attack. In this
hackers and threats panel, participants will learn how to build a
“fortress” of proactive defense controls that provide the time to react
decisively.
About Tripwire, Inc.
Tripwire is a leading global provider
of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, enabling
enterprises, government agencies and service providers to effectively
connect security to their business. Tripwire provides the broadest set
of foundational security controls including security
configuration management, vulnerability
management, file
integrity monitoring, log
and event
management. Tripwire
solutions deliver unprecedented visibility, business context and
security business intelligence allowing extended enterprises to protect
sensitive data from breaches, vulnerabilities, and threats. Learn more
at www.tripwire.com,
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