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Chris Silva
VP Analyst
Chris Silva is a Research Vice President on Gartner's Endpoint and Workspace Security team focused on the market for endpoint protection and detection technology. Chris's research and advisory support clients making investments in EPP and EDR tooling, securing endpoints and their data and using tools like Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and strategies such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to improve the ability to get work done anywhere, securely.
Chris's background in advisory, consulting and IT support offer a unique perspective to support Gartner's clients; supporting end-user organizations in choosing and optimizing technology, helping vendors tune products to current market needs and supporting investors to make winning bets in emerging markets.
Outside of work, Chris can often be found cycling, hiking or paddling in and around New England.
Previous experience
Chris has dedicated his career to providing trusted advice on IT strategy for end users and market and product strategy for IT vendors. His experience in analyzing markets has included endpoint management, wireless network infrastructure, VPN, SD WAN and SaaS applications. Chris has interwoven his analyst work with experience in market sizing and forecasting for private equity clients, product strategy for financial services clients, IT support and product marketing.
His professional background includes work in scoping and managing complex, research-backed consulting engagements, conducting primary research to inform strategic private equity investments and running marketing and PR functions for a boutique analyst firm focused on SaaS software.
Professional background
Altimeter Group
Senior Analyst
The Institute for Applied Network Security
Senior Vice President, Research and Service Delivery
Forrester Research
Senior Analyst
Areas of coverage
Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations
Security of Applications and Data
Infrastructure Security
Education
B.S., Marketing, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
2Endpoint security strategy to defend against ransomware
3Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Protections and Policies
4SaaS application posture management (SSPM/SMP for security use-cases)
5Mobile device security and management (UEM, Mobile Device Management, MTD)