Brian Lowans, Ph.D., MBA is a Senior Director Analyst within the Secure Business Enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. Dr. Lowans focuses on a range of data security issues, including data security governance, data risk and infonomics, structured and unstructured data encryption and tokenization, data-centric audit and protection, encryption key management, cloud data security issues, and electronic signatures, as well as other information security, privacy and risk topics.