Greg Young

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

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

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.