Textainer Selects Tripwire Enterprise for Increased Operational Efficiency, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Container Industry Leader Improves Change Management Across Distributed IT Infrastructure

Textainer, a leader in the marine container leasing industry, has selected and implemented Tripwire Enterprise, the leading configuration audit and control solution. Textainer chose Tripwire Enterprise to increase the efficiency of operations across its distributed IT infrastructure, which includes offices at every major shipping port in the world. Tripwire enables Textainer's IT staff to monitor this heterogeneous environment remotely if necessary and respond to unplanned or unauthorized changes immediately, increasing the efficiency of operations. In addition, Textainer, a 25-year-old company that went public in late 2007, has leveraged Tripwire for compliance with accounting regulations specified in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

"Textainer has a unique IT environment. Some of our offices are located in remote areas, where IT may not be able to fix problems on site," said Gregory Coan, CIO of Textainer. "Thus, it's important that IT operations be as streamlined as possible, so that staff can respond to changes quickly. Tripwire gives us the tools to do that while also ensuring we are compliant with internal and external regulatory requirements, like Sarbanes-Oxley."

Tripwire automatically detects unauthorized, non-compliant change to enterprise-wide systems and virtual environments and immediately alerts IT staff so that exceptions to its change and release management policies can be immediately updated and investigated. This approach enables Textainer to achieve and maintain a known and trusted state across its IT infrastructure -- as well as meeting regulatory requirements such as and also ensures continuous compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements, including The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.

About Textainer

Textainer was established in 1979 and is a leader in the marine container leasing industry. Textainer leases standard and special dry freight marine containers to international skipping lines. Textainer also purchases older containers from its shipping line customers and sells these containers along with containers being disposed from its own fleet. In 2003, Textainer was awarded a contact to become the primary supplier of containers to the U.S. Military. Today, Textainer is the largest lessor of Marine containers and is among the largest sellers of second hand containers in the world. At the end of September 2007, Textainer's owned and managed container fleet was comprised of 21 million twenty foot equivalent units (TEU) with a current replacement cost of $3.9 billion. Textainer has 150 employees and dedicated representatives located around the world in major international shipping and trading centers. Textainer has over 3000 leasing customers, which include virtually all of the world's leading international shipping lines, and over 700 container sales customers.

About Tripwire, Inc.

Tripwire, Inc. is the recognized leader of configuration audit and control solutions, serving over 6,000 enterprises worldwide. As the first in the industry to combine configuration assessment with configuration change auditing, Tripwire helps IT organizations automate compliance across the data center, reducing risk and increasing operational efficiency. Tripwire ensures the organization achieves continuous operational, regulatory and security compliance, helping IT achieve and maintain a known, trusted and compliant system state. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices in the UK, Australia and Japan. For more information visit: http://www.tripwire.com/.

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