Gene Kim is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Tripwire, Inc. In 1992, he co-authored Tripwire while at Purdue University with Dr. Gene Spafford. Although Gene is widely published on computer security, operating systems and networking in SANS, Usenet, ACM and IEEE publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, he is continually fixated on the problems of data and network integrity. He is currently working with Spafford on IT safety models to explain why IT is in so much pain, and show how basic capabilities such as repeatable builds and quick remediation are the key to running IT securely. He holds an M.S. in computer science from University of Arizona and a B.S. in computer sciences from Purdue University.