Avivah Litan VP Distinguished Analyst Potomac, MD USA Years of Experience 11 years at Gartner 29 years IT industry Areas of Coverage Security & Privacy View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Avivah Litan is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research. Her area of expertise includes financial fraud, authentication, identity theft, fraud detection and prevention applications and other areas of information security and risk. She also covers payment systems and financial flows in the business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets. Previous Experience Before joining Gartner, Ms. Litan worked as a director of financial systems at the World Bank. She also worked as a journalist and columnist for the Washington Times. Professional Background World Bank, Senior Manager, 15 years Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Consultant, 2 years Sperry Univac, Systems Analyst, 1 year Industry Awards/Accolades Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2005 Thought Leadership Award, 2004 Several other research awards Education M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Executive Education Program, Harvard Business School Languages English Hebrew LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) Predicts 2010: New Delivery Models and New Business Needs Are Changing the IAM Market 18-Nov-2009 Ray Wagner, Ant Allan, Gregg Kreizman, Avivah Litan, Earl Perkins Best Practices for Data Security Breach Disclosure 11-Nov-2009 Avivah Litan, Carsten Casper, Paul E. Proctor Proposed U.S. Data Breach Laws Need Further Work 10-Nov-2009 John Bace, Avivah Litan MarketScope for Enterprise Fraud Management 03-Sep-2009 Avivah Litan Pattern Discovery With Security Monitoring and Fraud Detection Technologies 02-Sep-2009 Mark Nicolett, Avivah Litan, Paul E. Proctor