Dwayne Melancon

Dwayne Melancon Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire Dwayne Melancon, CISA is Tripwire’s Chief Technology Officer, where he is responsible for driving and evangelizing the company’s global product strategy. In this role, he works with enterprises around the world to help them objectively implement and manage information security in a way that is firmly aligned with the priorities of their businesses. His current passion is helping organizations connect security’s value to the business and establishing metrics and methods to enable objective decisions and informed action in information security. Dwayne has a history of research and curiosity about IT practices and security, and was a contributor to both the Visible Ops Handbook and Visible Ops Security Handbook, working with authors Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. As part of this effort, he contributed to research led by Carnegie Mellon’s SEI, the University of Florida, and the IT Process Institute in their studies and benchmarking of IT best practices. He works with numerous corporations around the world on IT service management improvement and IT security, and has teamed with the Institute of Internal Auditors in its pursuit of Generally Accepted IT Principles. Dwayne blogs for Tripwire at http://bit.ly/TWCTOblog and personally at http://genuinecuriosity.com