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Jon Amato
Sr Director Analyst
Jon Amato is a Sr. Director Analyst in the Gartner for Technical Professionals Security Technology and Infrastructure team, focusing on endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, application allowlisting, XDR, ransomware defense programs, and secure web gateway technologies.
Previous experience
Mr. Amato has more than 17 years of experience with IT Security vendors, in roles ranging from hands-on work in security incident response, secure email design, endpoint protection implementation, penetration testing, and audit. In addition, Mr. Amato worked as a product manager in the endpoint protection space.
Most recently, Mr. Amato worked as a lead implementation consultant for an endpoint protection vendor, managing a team of consultants performing application control, endpoint detection and response, and next-generation antivirus product implementations throughout the EMEA region.
Professional background
Carbon Black
Lead Technical Services Consultant
BigFix
Product Manager
IBM Security Systems
Technical Product Manager
Areas of coverage
Security Operations for Technical Professionals
Security Technology and Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Protecting enterprise environments against the threat of advanced malware
2Enabling secure web usage
3Defending the enterprise against ransomware attacks
4Using endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools