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Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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Who’s Who In Network Security Coverage At Gartner

by Greg Young  |  January 12, 2009  |  5 Comments

My inside baseball post this week is introducing who covers what in Network Security within the Infrastructure Protection team here at Gartner.  Coverage, like the security market, is fairly dynamic, and I have probably only included about half of what they cover, but here is a rough sketch, along with a tidbit about what they have been working on lately:

Vic Wheatman Vic Wheatman is the Infrastructure Protection Group leader and covers public key cryptography and electronic signatures.  Vic also leads the work and chairs the June Gartner Security Summit.

Adam Hils Adam Hils’ coverage includes SMB security including multifunction firewalls and securing Sharepoint.  Adam has been toiling on the first Critical Capabilities for SMB Firewalls research note and is the group’s agenda manager.

Kelly M. Kavanagh Kelly Kavanagh is the lead for MSSPs and security services, and covers SIEM and VA/VM.  Kelly has been working on the MSSP Magic Quadrant.

Mark Nicolett Mark Nicolett is the Chief of Research for the security unit and his coverage includes SIEM, VA/VM, and security configuration management.

Lawrence Orans Lawrence Orans covers SIP/VOIP security, NAC, scan and block products, and proxy servers.  He has been spending time doing research on the security issues in Unified Communications.

John Pescatore  John Pescatore and his coverage includes Windows security, browser security, wireless security, PCI, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and web security.  His Gartner blog is here.

Greg Young and Greg Young covers firewalls, IDS/IPS, web application firewalls, and the other network security items.  I am in the middle of the Network IPS Magic Quadrant, and writing this blog entry.

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  • 1 Stiennon   January 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    So who covers Enterprise UTM? That’s what I want to know.

  • 2 Greg Young   January 13, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Once Enterprise UTM exists, I am sure someone will be assigned to cover it. Likely the same analyst will be working on the Quantum Solar Powered IPS Magic Quadrant and the MarketScope for Transgalactic VPNs :)

    Greg

  • 3 Rob Lewis   January 21, 2009 at 11:46 am

    So Greg,

    Where do you think scalable MLS, or any kind of fine-grained access and audit control (at the data file level), fit in within this group?

  • 4 Greg Young   January 21, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Hi Rob:

    We have a group (not this one in the post) that covers IAM. multi-level security cuts across a lot of coverage of course, but most “letting the good guys in” coverage is within the IAM group. In my next post, I’ll detail the IAM coverage.

    Greg

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