Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

Ant Allan, Ph.D., is a research vice president in Gartner Research. He is a core member of the identity and access management (IAM) research community and specializes in IAM program management and in key "authentication" and related "administration" technologies, processes and best practices.

John Bace is a research vice president with Gartner's Compliance, Risk and Leadership research group, where he focuses on the impact of public policy issues, including regulatory compliance and e-discovery, on IT. Mr. Bace heads up Gartner's Compliance, Audit and Legal Research Community and is a certified compliance and ethics professional (CCEP).

Dan Blum, a Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst, currently covers security architecture, cloud computing security, endpoint security, Web/e-mail content filtering, and the cybercrime/threat landscape. He also has a strong background in identity management, federated identity and other security technologies. Mr. Blum has written hundreds of research papers or articles and consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to industry organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Internal Standards Organization (ISO), National Institute of Standards (NIST), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS) and Liberty Alliance. Mr. Blum has co-authored "The E-Mail Frontier," published by Addison-Wesley in 1994, and authored "Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Service," published by Microsoft Press in 2000. He speaks at Burton Group Catalyst, RSA Security, InfoSecurity Europe, I4 Forums, NIST IDTrust, and Open Group Security Practitioners, and blogs at srmsblog.burtongroup.com.

Luc Brandts is responsible for managing the development of BWise products and the company's vision. In his previous career as a business consultant, he managed projects in information technology, systems implementation, change management and business process optimization. His experience extends to industries that include financial services, government, manufacturing, healthcare and telecommunications. Mr. Brandts graduated with honors from Eindhoven University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on systems design and optimization. He obtained his PH.D. doctoral thesis on Methodical Design of Industrial Systems as an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

An entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Don Byrne is a Partner at the consulting firm GRCS, LLC. An Adjunct Professor at Boston University, he teaches graduate courses in risk management and compliance. In 2011, Don became a Senior Fellow at the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute at Louisiana State University. A certified contingency planner (CBCP) and Lead Auditor, he regularly consults with some of the largest certification firms in the U.S. He holds degrees in mathematics, philosophy, and international marketing, is a member of the national board of the Association of Contingency Planners, and a contributing writer for several media outlets.

F. Christian Byrnes is a managing vice president in Gartner. His team is distributed across the globe and covers the management of risk-related programs such as Information Security, Business Continuity, Privacy and Compliance. In addition, he consults with leading organizations worldwide on technology direction, security trends and best practices.

French Caldwell is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he leads governance, risk and compliance research. Mr. Caldwell also writes and presents on knowledge management. His research includes analysis of the impact of regulatory developments on IT, compliance technologies, corporate governance, enterprise and IT risk management, and knowledge management.

Michele Cantara is a vice president in Gartner Research. Her primary research area is business process management disciplines and technologies. Her current research agenda centers on the use of BPM in outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing, as well as the competencies and skills needed to make BPM efforts successful. Her research also focuses on the BPM consulting and SI capabilities of external service providers and software vendors.

Perry Carpenter is a research director in the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. His primary focus is on identity and access management (IAM), data privacy, and the information security organization.

Carsten Casper is a research director with Gartner Research, responsible for the Privacy Key Initiative and for the security role in Gartner for IT Leaders in Germany. He advises clients on privacy and security strategies and technologies, in particular regarding European regulations, data protection, certifications, managed security services and compliance.

Leader and statesman, Michael Chertoff came to the job of 2nd Secretary of Homeland Security with a background heavy with experience in fighting terrorism, having served as the head of the Justice Department's criminal division in the months after Sept. 11th. He implemented programs and capabilities that did not exist prior to September 11, to better equip the U.S. to deal with the threats of the 21st century across land, sea, and air. In March 2009, Secretary Chertoff formed an advisory firm, The Chertoff Group, which counsels corporate and government clients on security and risk management. The firm helps clients at each stage of the security process with a focus on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Prior to serving as Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary Chertoff was previously confirmed by the Senate to serve in the Bush Administration as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. As Assistant Attorney General, he helped trace the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the al-Qaida network, and worked to increase information sharing within the FBI and with state and local officials. Before joining the Bush Administration, Chertoff was a Partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins. His introduction to Washington came when he served as Special Counsel for the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Chertoff graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1975 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978. From 1979-1980 he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. Secretary Chertoff is married to Meryl Justin and has two children.

Dr. Eric Cole has over twenty years of experience in network security consulting, with clients including leading international banks, Fortune 500 companies, and the CIA. As a recognized industry expert, Dr. Cole has presented at a variety of security conferences, including multiple SANS events, and he has been interviewed by CBS News, 60 minutes and CNN. Dr. Cole is a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President, the HoneyNet project and the CVE Editorial board, and is a recognized author of several books, including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Sight, Insider Threat and Network Security Bible.

Mark Driver is a vice president and research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in application development technologies and open-source software. Within Gartner, Mr. Driver serves as a principal analyst for Java technology, as well as the Microsoft .NET framework. He is also the principal analyst covering the business and technical issues of the open-source software model. He covers many aspects of open-source software, including adoption challenges, best practices, market impact and development models.

Ken Dulaney is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where his research areas include smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers, industrial handhelds, wireless communications, mobile software and device management strategies. Mr. Dulaney is also the lead analyst for Intel. He has been recognized by Adweek magazine as one of the top 20 technology industry analysts.

Joseph Feiman, Ph.D., is a research vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Feiman focuses on applications' security: technologies and methodologies enabling secure software life cycle, data privacy, security of large systems and packaged applications, legacies, SOA, Web 2.0, cloud computing security, and security as a service.

Peter Firstbrook is a leading authority on anti-malware and anti-spam. As a research director with Gartner, Mr. Firstbrook is responsible for all topics related to the endpoint security, secure Web gateway and secure e-mail gateway markets. He helps companies select strategic technology vendors and products, negotiate the best product price, and implement best practices.

Andrew Frank covers marketing and advertising technology and business trends as a research vice president with Gartner's Media Research team. His research focuses on new opportunities in digital advertising and media intelligence leveraging mobile, social, video, and advanced TV platforms and channels, and utilizing data-driven targeting, metrics, interactive design, and real-time ad operations.

Tom is the Manager of the Technical Assessments Group (TAG) for CVS Caremark’s Vendor Assessment Program. Tom oversees all assessments of CVS Caremark’s existing and potential vendors that collect, destroy, store, process, or transport proprietary (PII, PHI, PCI, strategic) data. He was instrumental in establishing the current policies and procedures governing the assessment program, designing the risk methodology used to assess vendors, and for re-performing vendor assessments. Prior to CVS Caremark Tom held management positions in IT Audit for Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing and banking/finance.

John E. Girard is a VP and distinguished analyst in Gartner's Info Security and Privacy Research Center. He specializes in business security and privacy solutions for wireless and mobile road warriors, extranet, remote offices and teleworkers.

Ron Gula, Co-founder and CEO/CTO of Tenable Network Security, is known in the global security community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work in security to starting his career in information security at the National Security Agency conducting penetration tests of government networks and performing advanced vulnerability research. Mr. Gula is also a leader in his community and a passionate advocate for education and scientific research. In SC Magazine's 20th Anniversary Edition, he was named as one of the top market entrepreneurs for the past 20 years.

Rajiv Gupta serves as Vice President/General Manager of Policy Management Business unit at Cisco Systems. Dr. Gupta is the Founder of Securent Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He has more than 17 years of successful enterprise software and security experience, and is widely recognized as a pioneer of Web Services. He is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin Web Services and has more than 45 patents to his name. He earned his Master's and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

John Hagerty brings more than 30 years of experience in enterprise applications and technologies to his role as research vice president in Gartner's Business Intelligence group. His research focus is analytics, including supporting technologies and applied best practices by content area.

Jay Heiser is a research vice president specializing in the areas of IT risk assessment and management, regulatory compliance, collaboration security, security policy and security organization. Current research areas include cloud and SaaS computing risk and control, technologies and processes for the secure sharing of data with external partners, and the writing and enforcement of corporate policies.

Trent Henry is a principal analyst covering security and risk management strategies. His primary research topics include data protection, compliance and control standards, content security, and cryptography.

Mark V. Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and President of NCR Corporation.

Kelly Kavanagh is a principal analyst in Gartner's Information Security & Privacy program. Mr. Kavanagh focuses on professional and managed services for network and Internet security. He conducts research on end-user requirements and vendor portfolios and market strategy for security consulting, implementation and integration, managed services and training. He assists Gartner clients in understanding various security service providers and offerings, and in finding appropriate solutions to specific needs.

Vice Admiral Al Konetzni, United States Navy retired, is a native of Pleasantville, New York. A career Nuclear Submariner, Admiral Konetzni has successfully commanded at all levels and has extensive experience in strategic planning, financial and personnel management, engineering, innovation, foreign affairs, leadership, and lecturing. Admiral Konetzni presently serves on the Boards of Simulex, Inc., Larry King Cardiac Foundation, Tompkins Builders, Inc., EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc., Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory, Navy Memorial Foundation, and on the Board of Governors of the We Are Family Foundation. He is a member of the Global Forces Panel of the STRATCOM Senior Advisory Group; a Panel Chairman of the recently completed Defense Science Board study on “Energy;” and a member of the National Academy of Science study on “Remote Distributed Underwater Sensors.” He holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Personnel Administration from George Washington University and has coauthored the book Command at Sea.

Fred Kost is Director of Marketing for Cisco and responsible for delivering security solutions that enable Cisco’s Borderless Networks strategy. He has been involved in information security for fifteen years and has extensive security experience with Recourse Technologies, Symantec, nCircle and Blue Lane Technologies. Mr. Kost earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Gregg Kreizman is a research director on Gartner's Information Security and Privacy team. Mr. Kreizman covers single sign-on, password management, identity federation, user-centric identity, electronic signature, public-key infrastructure and general identity and access management topics.

Ramon Krikken is an analyst in the Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies team. He covers software/application security; service-oriented architecture (SOA) security; structured and unstructured data security management, including data masking, redaction and tokenization; cryptography, key management and PKI; security information and event management (SIEM) and security analytics; security metrics; and virtualization and cloud computing security as it pertains to the other categories.

Edward Krupka is the CIO for Burris Logistics, a leading supply chain solutions provider.

Dale Kutnick is senior vice president and global head of Gartner Executive Programs. His primary responsibility is designing and developing innovative advisory programs and services for CIOs and senior business leaders to help them better manage and exploit IT economics and financials, risk and business enablement. Mr. Kutnick is actively involved in creating new research deliverables (including new websites, podcasts, webcasts and other content) and managing service quality as well as improving client support. He is also a regular speaker at Gartner events, and works directly with numerous CIOs and senior executives on IT-enabled business initiatives and strategies.

Avivah Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. Her area of expertise includes fraud detection and prevention applications, authentication, adaptive access management, identity proofing, identity theft, and other areas of information security and risk. She also covers the PCI compliance program and the security aspects of payment systems.

Debra Logan is a vice president in Gartner Research. She covers enterprise content management, records management, knowledge management and worker productivity, intellectual capital, and intellectual property topics and compliance as related to documentation and records. She is currently researching topics in enterprise information management, information quality, information assets and liabilities, and e-discovery.

Chet Loveland is the Global Information Security & Privacy Officer for MeadWestVaco, a six-billion dollar global manufacturing leader with over 20,000 employees worldwide and operations in 30 countries.

Neil MacDonald is a vice president, distinguished analyst and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, based in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. MacDonald is a member of Gartner's information security and privacy research team, focusing on operating system and application-level security strategies. Specific research areas include Windows security, host-based intrusion prevention systems, converged endpoint security, service-oriented application security, business process management security and the integration of security into the application development process.

Saikat Maiti heads the information security and data privacy department at Varian Medical Systems. He is responsible for ensuring the security and privacy of Varian’s 75 global offices and customers worldwide. He is also responsible for product security at Varian and oversees the information systems and services strategy that protect the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive patient records within Varian Medical Systems’ niche product line. Before joining Varian Medical Systems, Saikat was a director in the security advisory services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped executives at Fortune 50 Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals and Hi-Tech clients define their information-security program and develop their identity and access management strategy.

Eric Maiwald is an analyst in security and risk management strategies where he covers infrastructure and mobile security. Mr. Maiwald also manages the research calendar for security and risk management strategies with Gartner's Burton unit.

Mr. McCray has 20+ years experience with the Department of Defense and private industry in information security and technology providing security services for Standard Register Company in Ohio. Aaron McCray is a Navy Reserve LT, serving as the Operations Officer for NIOC Detroit/Remote Drill Site Dayton. LT McCray is a qualified Information Warfare Officer and holds the Information Dominance Warfare Qualification, and the these cyber- related professional certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Certified Forensic Examiner (CFE), and Master’s of Science Degree in Management.

Rob McMillan is a Gartner research director in the ITL Systems Security & Risk team. Based in Sydney, he researches and advises clients on infrastructure protection issues.

Jonathan D. (JD) Messinger, Managing Partner Industry Sectors, SunGard Availability Consulting Services, is the former CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting (Singapore) and Cap Gemini E&Y South East Asia. One of thirty-seven Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy class of 1981, he is a recognized expert in crisis response and emergency management and in developing innovative response capabilities for corporations and governments on five continents. He was the IT Person of the Week in Asia, nominated as the CNBC Asian CEO of the Year in 2002, and is the recipient of four corporate presidential and three national medals or awards.

Paul Montrose, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC is a Senior Security Professional/Advisor on the staff of the Chief Security Officer at Acxiom Corporation. Paul's diverse background has provided him an opportunity to balance security and business while providing a governance structure that addresses risk to the organization, in accordance with the business model. His past employers include Cummins Engine Company and Harris Corporation in areas such as information technology, security, compliance, quality assurance, manufacturing, and leadership. Paul is currently a member of ISACA, the Central Arkansas chapter Vice President, (ISC)2, InfraGard, and the Computer Department’s Industry Advisory Board at Arkansas Technical University.

John Morency is a research vice president who covers the management of disaster recovery and IT resiliency. He also focuses on compliance, security and risk management issues related to the implementation of effective disaster recovery.

Mark Nicolett is a vice president in Gartner Research. His research in the security, risk and compliance area focuses on security information and event management, database activity monitoring, vulnerability management, configuration audit, and IT governance risk and compliance management.

Trish Oelrich is a senior executive with extensive business risk and compliance knowledge. She has over 30 years experience in corporate governance, compliance, audit, information systems, accounting and IT security. A strategic thought leader on emerging and existing risk issues, she has a primary focus on protecting shareholder value and a company’s reputation. Ms. Oelrich has depth and breadth in pharmaceuticals, financial services (including insurance, banking and securities), healthcare and manufacturing. Her expertise includes regulatory compliance; business, financial and IT process controls; forensic investigations, data integrity; business continuity; data privacy; IT security; IT quality management processes and Sarbanes-Oxley. She effectively integrates the appropriate risk mitigation activities into business, IT strategies and operational processes in cost-effective ways. With her leadership organizations have successfully taken business risks while protecting their assets, reputation, intellectual property, personally identifiable information, financial data, and continuity of business processes. Ms. Oelrich is a Director for PEPCO Holdings, Inc. a Fortune 250 Energy/Utility company located in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Audit Committee and Governance/Nominating Committees of the Board. Over the past ten years Ms. Oelrich has established a global risk management program at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) that embedded risk management into the daily operations of the organization focusing on cost-effective compliance solutions and information monitoring. Prior to the risk management role at GSK, Trish was responsible for US Financial and world-wide IT Internal Audit services. At Ernst & Young, Ms. Oelrich was Partner in charge of Information Systems Audit and Security and consulted to the financial services, manufacturing and healthcare industries. She managed the consulting practice and delivered all information systems audit and security consulting services to over 400 clients. In addition she was lead financial audit partner on various engagements. Ms. Oelrich was a Board member and Treasurer for various non-profit organizations including Fielding Graduate University, Girl Scout Council of Chicago, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Her financial expertise helped these organizations establish financial stability. She remains well networked through the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG), Executive Women of New Jersey, New Jersey CPA Society, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Ms. Oelrich is presently a member of the Fielding Graduate University Board of Trustees.

Lawrence Orans is a research director in Gartner's Research organization. His research focuses on the integration of security within internal networks, with a particular emphasis on network access control, VoIP and content filtering.

Eric Ouellet is a vice president in Gartner, where he is responsible for research activities and content delivery relating to data loss prevention (DLP); enterprise digital rights management (EDRM); PKI/PKO: Certificate Authorities (CA); database, application and storage encryption; encrypted e-mail; and virtualization and risk management.

General Manager, Intel Anti-Theft Services Anand Pashupathy, a 18-year Intel veteran, is the General Manager of the Anti-Theft Services Business Unit at Intel. This group is responsible for delivering Anti-Theft building blocks to the ecosystem and partners as well as driving availability of laptop based theft-protection solutions in the market.

Earl Perkins is a research vice president in the Security and Privacy team at Gartner. His focus areas include: (1) identity and access management (IAM), including user provisioning, role life cycle management and entitlement management; (2) IAM services, including consulting, integration, managed services, and IAM as a service; (3) IAM strategy, architecture and governance; 4) SOA and cloud computing IAM; and (5) energy and utility security services and management.

John Pescatore is a vice president and research fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Pescatore has 32 years of experience in computer, network and information security.

Lawrence Pingree's responsibilities include coverage of data center transformation and the cloud security space. His main focus is on conducting research targeted at the security aspects of products in the data center and cloud environments. The emphasis of his documents is on providing insight to vendors rather than end customers.

Alexandre Pinto has over 10 years experience in Information Security and has worked as a consultant and a project manager in numerous consulting, managed security services and system integration projects in medium to very large organizations. Alexandre holds the CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, CISM, CREST CCT APP and PMP certifications and has been a PCI QSA since 2006. He has worked as the lead QSA and managed PCI compliance projects for acquirers, service providers and merchants and has played a key role in reducing the time and cost involved with their compliance efforts.

As a covert CIA Operations Officer, Valerie Plame Wilson worked to protect America’s national security and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Without warning, in 2003 she found herself at the heart of a political firestorm when senior White House and State Department officials revealed her secret status to several national journalists -- including a syndicated conservative newspaper columnist who published her name. A subsequent investigation exposed what some dub an act of treason: that Wilson’s “outing” was coordinated with the involvement of President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff (Karl Rove), Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff (I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby) and the Deputy Secretary of State (Richard Armitage). Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators and in March 2007 was found guilty on four of the five counts against him. Much had been written about the “Valerie Plame Story” before Wilson, who remained silent throughout the controversy, wrote her New York Times best-selling autobiography Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House which was recently made into a major motion picture starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Since her covert identity was compromised, Wilson has become a public advocate and respected authority on issues of national security, counter-proliferation, and politics.

Ms. Plunkett serves as Director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at the National Security Agency. On behalf of the Director, NSA, the IAD is the focal point for Cyber Security, Cryptography, and information systems security for all national security systems. Specific responsibilities include research and development activities to generate IA techniques and solutions, ensuring the availability of IA products and solutions and understanding the threat to and vulnerability of national security systems. From August 2008-May 2010, Ms. Plunkett served as the Deputy Director Information Assurance. Mrs. Plunkett also served as a Director on the National Security Council at the White House. In this capacity, she led the development and coordination of national policy on critical infrastructure protection and cyber security issues. Mrs. Plunkett graduated from Towson University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Science. In 1999 she was awarded a Master of Science in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University. She is a 2002 graduate of the National War College where she was awarded a Master of Science in National Security Strategy. Mrs. Plunkett completed the Executive Development Seminar in 1998, the IC EXCEL Seminar in 2004, and the IC Intelligence Fellows Program in August 2005, and the Harvard Law School program in Conflict Management and Negotiations in 2009. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Mrs. Plunkett enjoys genealogy, sports, reading, and spending time with her family. She and her husband, Roger, live in Ellicott City, Maryland and have a son and a daughter.

David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online column, an online video and a popular daily blog, “Pogue’s Posts.” David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos. With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the “for Dummies” series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles. David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Shenandoah Conservatory. He’s been profiled on both “48 Hours” and “60 Minutes.” He lives with his wife and three young children in Connecticut.

Paul Proctor is a vice president, distinguished analyst, and the role service director for risk management in Gartner Research. His coverage includes enterprise and IT risk management and compliance. His primary market coverage includes data loss prevention, IT GRC management and continuous controls monitoring, with secondary coverage in enterprise monitoring, IDS/IPS and event log management.

Drue Reeves is vice president and research director, Cloud Computing and Data Center Strategies.

Tom Scholtz is a research vice president in Gartner, where he advises clients on security management strategies, technologies, and trends, and is an acknowledged authority on information security policy design, security organizational dynamics, and security management processes. Based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Scholtz is a regular presenter at European industry events.

Donna Scott is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. She is responsible for research in the areas of real-time infrastructure, business availability, business continuity/disaster recovery and IT operations management. She focuses on best practices for IT operations management and architecture, end-to-end IT service management, 24/7 availability and private cloud computing research.

Doug Simmons is Burton Group vice president of consulting services. His expertise is in enterprise, e-business and service provider security, risk management, data loss prevention, identity and access management, application and data security, network security, security policy and program development, PKI, messaging and collaboration services.

Stephen Stokes is a research vice president in the Supply Chain Leaders group at Gartner Research. He coordinates sustainability and green technology research across supply chain, business strategy and sustainable technologies and leads an active, growing and dynamic team of researchers. His primary responsibility involves guiding companies in understanding risks and exploring opportunities presented by the challenges of climate change and sustainability. This theme covers a broad cross-section of issues relating to sustainable business performance, carbon emissions and carbon management, emerging frameworks for sustainable business, and business issues associated with the low-carbon economic transformation, ranging from energy and emission policy and regulation to market dynamics.

Gareth has worked as a software developer for TEB since 1996. He has over seven years of experience with card systems, in particular ATM and transactional security infrastructure. This includes software, hardware, configuration as well as card schemes certification and compliance.

Peter Tiemeyer is the Sr. VP of IT Governance for RR Donnelley, a global provider of integrated communications. Founded more than 146 years ago, the company works collaboratively with more than 60,000 customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance ROI and ensure compliance.

Peter Tippett is vice president of security and industry solutions for Verizon Business, with responsibility for driving the overall strategic direction of Verizon’s industry-leading portfolio of security and industry solutions, including product development and marketing. He also serves as the company’s chief medical officer and is the chief scientist of the product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus.

Vice President - Corporate Performance Management and Financial Management Systems. As part of the administrative applications, compliance and business intelligence teams, I look after the research areas for everything that is CFO-related. I am the North American lead for these areas and focus on how to bring a technology solution into an enterprise, including the software, services and change management that will be required to achieve business value.

Sr. Manager, Enterprise Product Security

T. Jeff Vining is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he covers homeland security and law enforcement.

Ray Wagner, Ph.D., is managing vice president of the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. Mr. Wagner focuses on a wide range of security issues, including identity and access management, Web services security, public-key infrastructures, digital rights management, the information security organization, and information security issues within emerging technologies.

Andrew Walls is a research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in information security practices, tools and markets in social media, enterprise governance, awareness/communications, directories, investigations and security program management. Security practices and markets in the Asia/Pacific region are also a focus of his research agenda.

Alice Wang is a director with Gartner Consulting. Ms. Wang is focused on IT strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently exploring the identity and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Burton Group analysts, its impact on innovation for the enterprise and consumer markets, as well as cloud computing as it relates to identity and security. With more than 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large-scale IT projects. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous white papers, and is ITIL Foundation, Java Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified.

Marty has the responsibility to drive product packaging, pricing, messaging, and promotion for McAfee's Risk and Compliance products and services. He has spent over 20 years in technology development, product management, marketing and sales in both the security and storage industries. Prior to McAfee, Marty held key product management and marketing roles at Symantec, Veritas, Asempra, and Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his career, he held engineering and engineering management roles at IBM and received his degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University.

Victor (Vic) Wheatman is a managing vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Security and Privacy team. His research specialties include public key infrastructures and related applications, as well as the five-year security scenario. Mr. Wheatman has also chaired and programmed several of Gartner's security conferences.

Jeffrey Wheatman is a research director within Gartner's Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy research group. As an analyst within the Gartner for IT Leaders Security & Risk Management program, Mr. Wheatman works with senior security and risk management leaders to help them identify, assess and remediate security risks within their environments.

Wilson’s historic career in international relations spans more than three decades, with service under five U.S. presidents — Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton. Widely recognized for his diplomatic leadership , Wilson was hailed “a true American hero” by President George H.W. Bush for his efforts to free more than 100 American hostages in Iraq. The last American official to confront Saddam Hussein before the start of the Gulf War, Wilson served as the acting U.S. Ambassador in Iraq throughout Operation Desert Shield. In 2004, Wilson chronicled his diplomatic career and battle with the Bush administration in his national bestselling book The Politics of Truth. The Wilsons’ story released as a major motion picture entitled Fair Game after Valerie Plame’s memoir, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Since retiring from government service, Wilson’s work in international relations has continued to make a global impact.

Roberta Witty is a research VP in Gartner Research, where she is part of the Compliance, Risk and Leadership group. Her primary area of focus is business continuity management and disaster recovery. Ms. Witty is the role specialty lead for the Gartner for IT Leaders (GITL) business continuity manager role. She is also a GITL Premier coach for Security and Risk.

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner. His primary coverage area is network security.

Tim Zimmerman is a research director in Gartner Research. His research includes networking issues focusing on wired and wireless local-area networking (WLAN) technologies and vendors as well as RFID and ruggedized mobile devices.

John Bace is a research vice president with Gartner's Compliance, Risk and Leadership research group, where he focuses on the impact of public policy issues, including regulatory compliance and e-discovery, on IT. Mr. Bace heads up Gartner's Compliance, Audit and Legal Research Community and is a certified compliance and ethics professional (CCEP).

Dan Blum, a Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst, currently covers security architecture, cloud computing security, endpoint security, Web/e-mail content filtering, and the cybercrime/threat landscape. He also has a strong background in identity management, federated identity and other security technologies. Mr. Blum has written hundreds of research papers or articles and consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to industry organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Internal Standards Organization (ISO), National Institute of Standards (NIST), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS) and Liberty Alliance. Mr. Blum has co-authored "The E-Mail Frontier," published by Addison-Wesley in 1994, and authored "Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Service," published by Microsoft Press in 2000. He speaks at Burton Group Catalyst, RSA Security, InfoSecurity Europe, I4 Forums, NIST IDTrust, and Open Group Security Practitioners, and blogs at srmsblog.burtongroup.com.

Luc Brandts is responsible for managing the development of BWise products and the company's vision. In his previous career as a business consultant, he managed projects in information technology, systems implementation, change management and business process optimization. His experience extends to industries that include financial services, government, manufacturing, healthcare and telecommunications. Mr. Brandts graduated with honors from Eindhoven University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on systems design and optimization. He obtained his PH.D. doctoral thesis on Methodical Design of Industrial Systems as an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

An entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Don Byrne is a Partner at the consulting firm GRCS, LLC. An Adjunct Professor at Boston University, he teaches graduate courses in risk management and compliance. In 2011, Don became a Senior Fellow at the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute at Louisiana State University. A certified contingency planner (CBCP) and Lead Auditor, he regularly consults with some of the largest certification firms in the U.S. He holds degrees in mathematics, philosophy, and international marketing, is a member of the national board of the Association of Contingency Planners, and a contributing writer for several media outlets.

F. Christian Byrnes is a managing vice president in Gartner. His team is distributed across the globe and covers the management of risk-related programs such as Information Security, Business Continuity, Privacy and Compliance. In addition, he consults with leading organizations worldwide on technology direction, security trends and best practices.

French Caldwell is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he leads governance, risk and compliance research. Mr. Caldwell also writes and presents on knowledge management. His research includes analysis of the impact of regulatory developments on IT, compliance technologies, corporate governance, enterprise and IT risk management, and knowledge management.

Michele Cantara is a vice president in Gartner Research. Her primary research area is business process management disciplines and technologies. Her current research agenda centers on the use of BPM in outsourcing, SaaS, and cloud computing, as well as the competencies and skills needed to make BPM efforts successful. Her research also focuses on the BPM consulting and SI capabilities of external service providers and software vendors.

Perry Carpenter is a research director in the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. His primary focus is on identity and access management (IAM), data privacy, and the information security organization.

Carsten Casper is a research director with Gartner Research, responsible for the Privacy Key Initiative and for the security role in Gartner for IT Leaders in Germany. He advises clients on privacy and security strategies and technologies, in particular regarding European regulations, data protection, certifications, managed security services and compliance.

Leader and statesman, Michael Chertoff came to the job of 2nd Secretary of Homeland Security with a background heavy with experience in fighting terrorism, having served as the head of the Justice Department's criminal division in the months after Sept. 11th. He implemented programs and capabilities that did not exist prior to September 11, to better equip the U.S. to deal with the threats of the 21st century across land, sea, and air. In March 2009, Secretary Chertoff formed an advisory firm, The Chertoff Group, which counsels corporate and government clients on security and risk management. The firm helps clients at each stage of the security process with a focus on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Prior to serving as Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary Chertoff was previously confirmed by the Senate to serve in the Bush Administration as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. As Assistant Attorney General, he helped trace the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the al-Qaida network, and worked to increase information sharing within the FBI and with state and local officials. Before joining the Bush Administration, Chertoff was a Partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins. His introduction to Washington came when he served as Special Counsel for the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Chertoff graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1975 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978. From 1979-1980 he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. Secretary Chertoff is married to Meryl Justin and has two children.

Dr. Eric Cole has over twenty years of experience in network security consulting, with clients including leading international banks, Fortune 500 companies, and the CIA. As a recognized industry expert, Dr. Cole has presented at a variety of security conferences, including multiple SANS events, and he has been interviewed by CBS News, 60 minutes and CNN. Dr. Cole is a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President, the HoneyNet project and the CVE Editorial board, and is a recognized author of several books, including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Sight, Insider Threat and Network Security Bible.

Mark Driver is a vice president and research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in application development technologies and open-source software. Within Gartner, Mr. Driver serves as a principal analyst for Java technology, as well as the Microsoft .NET framework. He is also the principal analyst covering the business and technical issues of the open-source software model. He covers many aspects of open-source software, including adoption challenges, best practices, market impact and development models.

Ken Dulaney is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where his research areas include smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers, industrial handhelds, wireless communications, mobile software and device management strategies. Mr. Dulaney is also the lead analyst for Intel. He has been recognized by Adweek magazine as one of the top 20 technology industry analysts.

Joseph Feiman, Ph.D., is a research vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Feiman focuses on applications' security: technologies and methodologies enabling secure software life cycle, data privacy, security of large systems and packaged applications, legacies, SOA, Web 2.0, cloud computing security, and security as a service.

Peter Firstbrook is a leading authority on anti-malware and anti-spam. As a research director with Gartner, Mr. Firstbrook is responsible for all topics related to the endpoint security, secure Web gateway and secure e-mail gateway markets. He helps companies select strategic technology vendors and products, negotiate the best product price, and implement best practices.

Andrew Frank covers marketing and advertising technology and business trends as a research vice president with Gartner's Media Research team. His research focuses on new opportunities in digital advertising and media intelligence leveraging mobile, social, video, and advanced TV platforms and channels, and utilizing data-driven targeting, metrics, interactive design, and real-time ad operations.

Tom is the Manager of the Technical Assessments Group (TAG) for CVS Caremark’s Vendor Assessment Program. Tom oversees all assessments of CVS Caremark’s existing and potential vendors that collect, destroy, store, process, or transport proprietary (PII, PHI, PCI, strategic) data. He was instrumental in establishing the current policies and procedures governing the assessment program, designing the risk methodology used to assess vendors, and for re-performing vendor assessments. Prior to CVS Caremark Tom held management positions in IT Audit for Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing and banking/finance.

John E. Girard is a VP and distinguished analyst in Gartner's Info Security and Privacy Research Center. He specializes in business security and privacy solutions for wireless and mobile road warriors, extranet, remote offices and teleworkers.

Ron Gula, Co-founder and CEO/CTO of Tenable Network Security, is known in the global security community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work in security to starting his career in information security at the National Security Agency conducting penetration tests of government networks and performing advanced vulnerability research. Mr. Gula is also a leader in his community and a passionate advocate for education and scientific research. In SC Magazine's 20th Anniversary Edition, he was named as one of the top market entrepreneurs for the past 20 years.

Rajiv Gupta serves as Vice President/General Manager of Policy Management Business unit at Cisco Systems. Dr. Gupta is the Founder of Securent Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He has more than 17 years of successful enterprise software and security experience, and is widely recognized as a pioneer of Web Services. He is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin Web Services and has more than 45 patents to his name. He earned his Master's and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

John Hagerty brings more than 30 years of experience in enterprise applications and technologies to his role as research vice president in Gartner's Business Intelligence group. His research focus is analytics, including supporting technologies and applied best practices by content area.

Jay Heiser is a research vice president specializing in the areas of IT risk assessment and management, regulatory compliance, collaboration security, security policy and security organization. Current research areas include cloud and SaaS computing risk and control, technologies and processes for the secure sharing of data with external partners, and the writing and enforcement of corporate policies.

Trent Henry is a principal analyst covering security and risk management strategies. His primary research topics include data protection, compliance and control standards, content security, and cryptography.

Mark V. Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Hurd served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and President of NCR Corporation.

Kelly Kavanagh is a principal analyst in Gartner's Information Security & Privacy program. Mr. Kavanagh focuses on professional and managed services for network and Internet security. He conducts research on end-user requirements and vendor portfolios and market strategy for security consulting, implementation and integration, managed services and training. He assists Gartner clients in understanding various security service providers and offerings, and in finding appropriate solutions to specific needs.

Vice Admiral Al Konetzni, United States Navy retired, is a native of Pleasantville, New York. A career Nuclear Submariner, Admiral Konetzni has successfully commanded at all levels and has extensive experience in strategic planning, financial and personnel management, engineering, innovation, foreign affairs, leadership, and lecturing. Admiral Konetzni presently serves on the Boards of Simulex, Inc., Larry King Cardiac Foundation, Tompkins Builders, Inc., EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc., Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory, Navy Memorial Foundation, and on the Board of Governors of the We Are Family Foundation. He is a member of the Global Forces Panel of the STRATCOM Senior Advisory Group; a Panel Chairman of the recently completed Defense Science Board study on “Energy;” and a member of the National Academy of Science study on “Remote Distributed Underwater Sensors.” He holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Personnel Administration from George Washington University and has coauthored the book Command at Sea.

Fred Kost is Director of Marketing for Cisco and responsible for delivering security solutions that enable Cisco’s Borderless Networks strategy. He has been involved in information security for fifteen years and has extensive security experience with Recourse Technologies, Symantec, nCircle and Blue Lane Technologies. Mr. Kost earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Gregg Kreizman is a research director on Gartner's Information Security and Privacy team. Mr. Kreizman covers single sign-on, password management, identity federation, user-centric identity, electronic signature, public-key infrastructure and general identity and access management topics.

Ramon Krikken is an analyst in the Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies team. He covers software/application security; service-oriented architecture (SOA) security; structured and unstructured data security management, including data masking, redaction and tokenization; cryptography, key management and PKI; security information and event management (SIEM) and security analytics; security metrics; and virtualization and cloud computing security as it pertains to the other categories.

Edward Krupka is the CIO for Burris Logistics, a leading supply chain solutions provider.

Dale Kutnick is senior vice president and global head of Gartner Executive Programs. His primary responsibility is designing and developing innovative advisory programs and services for CIOs and senior business leaders to help them better manage and exploit IT economics and financials, risk and business enablement. Mr. Kutnick is actively involved in creating new research deliverables (including new websites, podcasts, webcasts and other content) and managing service quality as well as improving client support. He is also a regular speaker at Gartner events, and works directly with numerous CIOs and senior executives on IT-enabled business initiatives and strategies.

Avivah Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. Her area of expertise includes fraud detection and prevention applications, authentication, adaptive access management, identity proofing, identity theft, and other areas of information security and risk. She also covers the PCI compliance program and the security aspects of payment systems.

Debra Logan is a vice president in Gartner Research. She covers enterprise content management, records management, knowledge management and worker productivity, intellectual capital, and intellectual property topics and compliance as related to documentation and records. She is currently researching topics in enterprise information management, information quality, information assets and liabilities, and e-discovery.

Chet Loveland is the Global Information Security & Privacy Officer for MeadWestVaco, a six-billion dollar global manufacturing leader with over 20,000 employees worldwide and operations in 30 countries.

Neil MacDonald is a vice president, distinguished analyst and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, based in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. MacDonald is a member of Gartner's information security and privacy research team, focusing on operating system and application-level security strategies. Specific research areas include Windows security, host-based intrusion prevention systems, converged endpoint security, service-oriented application security, business process management security and the integration of security into the application development process.

Saikat Maiti heads the information security and data privacy department at Varian Medical Systems. He is responsible for ensuring the security and privacy of Varian’s 75 global offices and customers worldwide. He is also responsible for product security at Varian and oversees the information systems and services strategy that protect the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive patient records within Varian Medical Systems’ niche product line. Before joining Varian Medical Systems, Saikat was a director in the security advisory services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped executives at Fortune 50 Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals and Hi-Tech clients define their information-security program and develop their identity and access management strategy.

Eric Maiwald is an analyst in security and risk management strategies where he covers infrastructure and mobile security. Mr. Maiwald also manages the research calendar for security and risk management strategies with Gartner's Burton unit.

Mr. McCray has 20+ years experience with the Department of Defense and private industry in information security and technology providing security services for Standard Register Company in Ohio. Aaron McCray is a Navy Reserve LT, serving as the Operations Officer for NIOC Detroit/Remote Drill Site Dayton. LT McCray is a qualified Information Warfare Officer and holds the Information Dominance Warfare Qualification, and the these cyber- related professional certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Certified Forensic Examiner (CFE), and Master’s of Science Degree in Management.

Rob McMillan is a Gartner research director in the ITL Systems Security & Risk team. Based in Sydney, he researches and advises clients on infrastructure protection issues.

Jonathan D. (JD) Messinger, Managing Partner Industry Sectors, SunGard Availability Consulting Services, is the former CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting (Singapore) and Cap Gemini E&Y South East Asia. One of thirty-seven Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy class of 1981, he is a recognized expert in crisis response and emergency management and in developing innovative response capabilities for corporations and governments on five continents. He was the IT Person of the Week in Asia, nominated as the CNBC Asian CEO of the Year in 2002, and is the recipient of four corporate presidential and three national medals or awards.

Paul Montrose, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC is a Senior Security Professional/Advisor on the staff of the Chief Security Officer at Acxiom Corporation. Paul's diverse background has provided him an opportunity to balance security and business while providing a governance structure that addresses risk to the organization, in accordance with the business model. His past employers include Cummins Engine Company and Harris Corporation in areas such as information technology, security, compliance, quality assurance, manufacturing, and leadership. Paul is currently a member of ISACA, the Central Arkansas chapter Vice President, (ISC)2, InfraGard, and the Computer Department’s Industry Advisory Board at Arkansas Technical University.

John Morency is a research vice president who covers the management of disaster recovery and IT resiliency. He also focuses on compliance, security and risk management issues related to the implementation of effective disaster recovery.

Mark Nicolett is a vice president in Gartner Research. His research in the security, risk and compliance area focuses on security information and event management, database activity monitoring, vulnerability management, configuration audit, and IT governance risk and compliance management.

Trish Oelrich is a senior executive with extensive business risk and compliance knowledge. She has over 30 years experience in corporate governance, compliance, audit, information systems, accounting and IT security. A strategic thought leader on emerging and existing risk issues, she has a primary focus on protecting shareholder value and a company’s reputation. Ms. Oelrich has depth and breadth in pharmaceuticals, financial services (including insurance, banking and securities), healthcare and manufacturing. Her expertise includes regulatory compliance; business, financial and IT process controls; forensic investigations, data integrity; business continuity; data privacy; IT security; IT quality management processes and Sarbanes-Oxley. She effectively integrates the appropriate risk mitigation activities into business, IT strategies and operational processes in cost-effective ways. With her leadership organizations have successfully taken business risks while protecting their assets, reputation, intellectual property, personally identifiable information, financial data, and continuity of business processes. Ms. Oelrich is a Director for PEPCO Holdings, Inc. a Fortune 250 Energy/Utility company located in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Audit Committee and Governance/Nominating Committees of the Board. Over the past ten years Ms. Oelrich has established a global risk management program at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) that embedded risk management into the daily operations of the organization focusing on cost-effective compliance solutions and information monitoring. Prior to the risk management role at GSK, Trish was responsible for US Financial and world-wide IT Internal Audit services. At Ernst & Young, Ms. Oelrich was Partner in charge of Information Systems Audit and Security and consulted to the financial services, manufacturing and healthcare industries. She managed the consulting practice and delivered all information systems audit and security consulting services to over 400 clients. In addition she was lead financial audit partner on various engagements. Ms. Oelrich was a Board member and Treasurer for various non-profit organizations including Fielding Graduate University, Girl Scout Council of Chicago, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Her financial expertise helped these organizations establish financial stability. She remains well networked through the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG), Executive Women of New Jersey, New Jersey CPA Society, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Ms. Oelrich is presently a member of the Fielding Graduate University Board of Trustees.

Lawrence Orans is a research director in Gartner's Research organization. His research focuses on the integration of security within internal networks, with a particular emphasis on network access control, VoIP and content filtering.

Eric Ouellet is a vice president in Gartner, where he is responsible for research activities and content delivery relating to data loss prevention (DLP); enterprise digital rights management (EDRM); PKI/PKO: Certificate Authorities (CA); database, application and storage encryption; encrypted e-mail; and virtualization and risk management.

General Manager, Intel Anti-Theft Services Anand Pashupathy, a 18-year Intel veteran, is the General Manager of the Anti-Theft Services Business Unit at Intel. This group is responsible for delivering Anti-Theft building blocks to the ecosystem and partners as well as driving availability of laptop based theft-protection solutions in the market.

Earl Perkins is a research vice president in the Security and Privacy team at Gartner. His focus areas include: (1) identity and access management (IAM), including user provisioning, role life cycle management and entitlement management; (2) IAM services, including consulting, integration, managed services, and IAM as a service; (3) IAM strategy, architecture and governance; 4) SOA and cloud computing IAM; and (5) energy and utility security services and management.

John Pescatore is a vice president and research fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Pescatore has 32 years of experience in computer, network and information security.

Lawrence Pingree's responsibilities include coverage of data center transformation and the cloud security space. His main focus is on conducting research targeted at the security aspects of products in the data center and cloud environments. The emphasis of his documents is on providing insight to vendors rather than end customers.

Alexandre Pinto has over 10 years experience in Information Security and has worked as a consultant and a project manager in numerous consulting, managed security services and system integration projects in medium to very large organizations. Alexandre holds the CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, CISM, CREST CCT APP and PMP certifications and has been a PCI QSA since 2006. He has worked as the lead QSA and managed PCI compliance projects for acquirers, service providers and merchants and has played a key role in reducing the time and cost involved with their compliance efforts.

As a covert CIA Operations Officer, Valerie Plame Wilson worked to protect America’s national security and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Without warning, in 2003 she found herself at the heart of a political firestorm when senior White House and State Department officials revealed her secret status to several national journalists -- including a syndicated conservative newspaper columnist who published her name. A subsequent investigation exposed what some dub an act of treason: that Wilson’s “outing” was coordinated with the involvement of President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff (Karl Rove), Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff (I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby) and the Deputy Secretary of State (Richard Armitage). Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators and in March 2007 was found guilty on four of the five counts against him. Much had been written about the “Valerie Plame Story” before Wilson, who remained silent throughout the controversy, wrote her New York Times best-selling autobiography Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House which was recently made into a major motion picture starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Since her covert identity was compromised, Wilson has become a public advocate and respected authority on issues of national security, counter-proliferation, and politics.

Ms. Plunkett serves as Director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at the National Security Agency. On behalf of the Director, NSA, the IAD is the focal point for Cyber Security, Cryptography, and information systems security for all national security systems. Specific responsibilities include research and development activities to generate IA techniques and solutions, ensuring the availability of IA products and solutions and understanding the threat to and vulnerability of national security systems. From August 2008-May 2010, Ms. Plunkett served as the Deputy Director Information Assurance. Mrs. Plunkett also served as a Director on the National Security Council at the White House. In this capacity, she led the development and coordination of national policy on critical infrastructure protection and cyber security issues. Mrs. Plunkett graduated from Towson University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Science. In 1999 she was awarded a Master of Science in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University. She is a 2002 graduate of the National War College where she was awarded a Master of Science in National Security Strategy. Mrs. Plunkett completed the Executive Development Seminar in 1998, the IC EXCEL Seminar in 2004, and the IC Intelligence Fellows Program in August 2005, and the Harvard Law School program in Conflict Management and Negotiations in 2009. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Mrs. Plunkett enjoys genealogy, sports, reading, and spending time with her family. She and her husband, Roger, live in Ellicott City, Maryland and have a son and a daughter.

David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online column, an online video and a popular daily blog, “Pogue’s Posts.” David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos. With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the “for Dummies” series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles. David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Shenandoah Conservatory. He’s been profiled on both “48 Hours” and “60 Minutes.” He lives with his wife and three young children in Connecticut.

Paul Proctor is a vice president, distinguished analyst, and the role service director for risk management in Gartner Research. His coverage includes enterprise and IT risk management and compliance. His primary market coverage includes data loss prevention, IT GRC management and continuous controls monitoring, with secondary coverage in enterprise monitoring, IDS/IPS and event log management.

Drue Reeves is vice president and research director, Cloud Computing and Data Center Strategies.

Tom Scholtz is a research vice president in Gartner, where he advises clients on security management strategies, technologies, and trends, and is an acknowledged authority on information security policy design, security organizational dynamics, and security management processes. Based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Scholtz is a regular presenter at European industry events.

Donna Scott is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. She is responsible for research in the areas of real-time infrastructure, business availability, business continuity/disaster recovery and IT operations management. She focuses on best practices for IT operations management and architecture, end-to-end IT service management, 24/7 availability and private cloud computing research.

Doug Simmons is Burton Group vice president of consulting services. His expertise is in enterprise, e-business and service provider security, risk management, data loss prevention, identity and access management, application and data security, network security, security policy and program development, PKI, messaging and collaboration services.

Stephen Stokes is a research vice president in the Supply Chain Leaders group at Gartner Research. He coordinates sustainability and green technology research across supply chain, business strategy and sustainable technologies and leads an active, growing and dynamic team of researchers. His primary responsibility involves guiding companies in understanding risks and exploring opportunities presented by the challenges of climate change and sustainability. This theme covers a broad cross-section of issues relating to sustainable business performance, carbon emissions and carbon management, emerging frameworks for sustainable business, and business issues associated with the low-carbon economic transformation, ranging from energy and emission policy and regulation to market dynamics.

Gareth has worked as a software developer for TEB since 1996. He has over seven years of experience with card systems, in particular ATM and transactional security infrastructure. This includes software, hardware, configuration as well as card schemes certification and compliance.

Peter Tiemeyer is the Sr. VP of IT Governance for RR Donnelley, a global provider of integrated communications. Founded more than 146 years ago, the company works collaboratively with more than 60,000 customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance ROI and ensure compliance.

Peter Tippett is vice president of security and industry solutions for Verizon Business, with responsibility for driving the overall strategic direction of Verizon’s industry-leading portfolio of security and industry solutions, including product development and marketing. He also serves as the company’s chief medical officer and is the chief scientist of the product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus.

Vice President - Corporate Performance Management and Financial Management Systems. As part of the administrative applications, compliance and business intelligence teams, I look after the research areas for everything that is CFO-related. I am the North American lead for these areas and focus on how to bring a technology solution into an enterprise, including the software, services and change management that will be required to achieve business value.

Sr. Manager, Enterprise Product Security

T. Jeff Vining is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he covers homeland security and law enforcement.

Ray Wagner, Ph.D., is managing vice president of the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. Mr. Wagner focuses on a wide range of security issues, including identity and access management, Web services security, public-key infrastructures, digital rights management, the information security organization, and information security issues within emerging technologies.

Andrew Walls is a research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in information security practices, tools and markets in social media, enterprise governance, awareness/communications, directories, investigations and security program management. Security practices and markets in the Asia/Pacific region are also a focus of his research agenda.

Alice Wang is a director with Gartner Consulting. Ms. Wang is focused on IT strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently exploring the identity and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Burton Group analysts, its impact on innovation for the enterprise and consumer markets, as well as cloud computing as it relates to identity and security. With more than 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large-scale IT projects. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous white papers, and is ITIL Foundation, Java Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified.

Marty has the responsibility to drive product packaging, pricing, messaging, and promotion for McAfee's Risk and Compliance products and services. He has spent over 20 years in technology development, product management, marketing and sales in both the security and storage industries. Prior to McAfee, Marty held key product management and marketing roles at Symantec, Veritas, Asempra, and Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his career, he held engineering and engineering management roles at IBM and received his degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University.

Victor (Vic) Wheatman is a managing vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Security and Privacy team. His research specialties include public key infrastructures and related applications, as well as the five-year security scenario. Mr. Wheatman has also chaired and programmed several of Gartner's security conferences.

Jeffrey Wheatman is a research director within Gartner's Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy research group. As an analyst within the Gartner for IT Leaders Security & Risk Management program, Mr. Wheatman works with senior security and risk management leaders to help them identify, assess and remediate security risks within their environments.

Wilson’s historic career in international relations spans more than three decades, with service under five U.S. presidents — Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton. Widely recognized for his diplomatic leadership , Wilson was hailed “a true American hero” by President George H.W. Bush for his efforts to free more than 100 American hostages in Iraq. The last American official to confront Saddam Hussein before the start of the Gulf War, Wilson served as the acting U.S. Ambassador in Iraq throughout Operation Desert Shield. In 2004, Wilson chronicled his diplomatic career and battle with the Bush administration in his national bestselling book The Politics of Truth. The Wilsons’ story released as a major motion picture entitled Fair Game after Valerie Plame’s memoir, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. Since retiring from government service, Wilson’s work in international relations has continued to make a global impact.

Roberta Witty is a research VP in Gartner Research, where she is part of the Compliance, Risk and Leadership group. Her primary area of focus is business continuity management and disaster recovery. Ms. Witty is the role specialty lead for the Gartner for IT Leaders (GITL) business continuity manager role. She is also a GITL Premier coach for Security and Risk.

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner. His primary coverage area is network security.

Tim Zimmerman is a research director in Gartner Research. His research includes networking issues focusing on wired and wireless local-area networking (WLAN) technologies and vendors as well as RFID and ruggedized mobile devices.