About Richard Stiennon

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Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the booming IT security industry. He is the author of ‘Surviving Cyberwar’ (Government Institutes, 2010) and ‘UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence’ (IT-Harvest Press, 2012). He writes the Cyber Domain column for Forbes.com and is frequently quoted as a cybersecurity expert in mainstream media. He is also the Executive Editor of securitycurrent.com and the Senior Fellow at the International Cybersecurity Dialogue. He was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner, Inc.