Avivah Litan VP Distinguished Analyst Potomac, MD USA Years of Experience 15 years at Gartner 31 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 fraud detection and prevention applications, authentication, identity proofing, identity theft, and other areas of adaptive access management, information security, and risk. She also covers the PCI compliance program, tokenization, and the security aspects of payment systems. 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 Thought Leadership Award 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) Cool Vendors in Security: Identity and Access Management, 2013 29-Apr-2013 Ray Wagner, Avivah Litan, Earl Perkins Cool Vendors in Security: Security Intelligence, 2013 29-Apr-2013 Joseph Feiman, Neil MacDonald, Dionisio Zumerle, Avivah Litan, Andrew Walls, Ray Wagner Use Big Data Analytics to Solve Fraud and Security Problems 29-Mar-2013 Avivah Litan Proliferating Mobile Transaction Attack Vectors and What to Do About Them 01-Mar-2013 Avivah Litan, John Girard, Sandy Shen Arming Financial and E-Commerce Services Against Top 2013 Cyberthreats 29-Jan-2013 Avivah Litan