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Avivah Litan
Avivah Litan
VP Distinguished Analyst
Potomac, MD USA
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Years of Experience
15 years at Gartner
31 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Security & Privacy

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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




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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