Richard Stiennon

Chief Marketing Officer

Companies and public sector bodies alike are at risk from unauthorized access and the loss of valuable corporate and personal data. Recent events in the news have highlighted just how real this risk is. Achieving confidentiality of data through encryption is straightforward, the challenge that organizations face is how to strike the right balance between confidentiality, integrity and availability, particularly when data is exchanged between partner organizations, and data is stored on mobile devices that reside outside the glass house of security. Technology is available to secure data, but processes also need to be in place to ensure compliance and enable access to the encrypted information. Protecting against theft of mobile devices involves implementing security and managing the devices on the front line.

Biography

Richard Stiennon is Chief Marketing Officer, with more than 25 years of experience in the security industry. An acknowledged and acclaimed industry thought leader, he is perhaps best known for his tenure as Vice President of Research for Gartner's Security and Privacy group, where he regularly provided strategic counsel to Global 2000 CIOs and earned Gartner's Thought Leadership Award for 2003.

He was most recently the Founder and Chief Research Analyst of IT-Harvest, Inc., an independent IT research firm. Prior to IT Harvest, Richard was Vice President of Threat Research for Webroot Software, Inc.

Richard holds several patents and has garnered prestigious industry designations, including being named one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World magazine. Richard earned a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan.