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Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI)

IP Services and ITPI

Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including The Visible Ops Handbook and The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Gene is a huge fan of IT operations and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from "code complete" to "in production," without causing chaos and disruption to the production environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor of IT operational processes. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the "40 Innovative IT People Under The Age Of 40" list and was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.

Publications by Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI)

DevOps - Transform Development and Operations for Fast, Secure Deployments

July 30, 2013 • Podcast

Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI), Julia H. Allen

In this podcast, Gene Kim explains how the "release early, release often" approach significantly improves software performance, stability, and security.
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Prioritizing IT Controls for Effective, Measurable Security

July 02, 2013 • White Paper

Daniel Phelps, Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI), Kurt Milne

In this paper, the authors summarize results from the IT Controls Performance Study conducted by the IT Process Institute.
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Connecting the Dots Between IT Operations and Security

May 13, 2008 • Podcast

Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI), Julia H. Allen

In this podcast, Gene Kim describes how high performing organizations must integrate information security controls into their IT operational processes.
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Change Management: The Security 'X' Factor

November 14, 2006 • Podcast

Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI), Stephanie Losi

In this podcast, Gene Kim reports how a recent security survey found one factor that separated high performers from the rest of the pack: change management.
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Building a Practical Framework for Enterprise-Wide Security Management

April 28, 2004 • Presentation

Julia H. Allen, Kevin Behr (IP Services and ITPI), Richard A. Caralli, Eileen C. Forrester, Gene Kim (IP Services and ITPI), Larry Rogers, Jeannine Siviy, William R. Wilson

In this presentation, the authors describe a practical framework for enterprise-wide security management as developed by the CERT Division.
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